Martin Luther King Jr.: A Gift Of Love

If there's one book by Martin Luther King Jr. about which people consistently say it has changed their lives, it’s this book. I believe it's because this book best explains Martin Luther King Jr.'s philosophy of nonviolence; his belief in a divine, loving presence that binds all life.

Coretta Scott King (widow of Martin Luther King Jr.)

In these tumultuous days of uncertainty, the evil manifested through wars and economic and racial injustices threatens the survival of humanity. The crisis is extremely serious. In this volume, I have collected speeches that present this crisis and the background. I have chosen these, because in some way all of them affect personal and community problems arising from the crisis.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Fifty years later, these words have not lost their validity. In fact, nowadays they are perhaps timelier than ever. The speeches collected in the book help us to get out of the labyrinth of ideologies, to lift our heads from the constant relativity of political interests and aspects, and to recognize the eternal truths that unite the sanity of the mind and the humanity of the heart. We can adjust our convictions to these with calm certainty in seemingly irresolvable social and political issues, since they have already proven that they are capable of initiating changes previously thought unimaginable both in the inner world of a person as well as on a social level.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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