A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches - Softcover

King, Martin Luther

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060646918 ISBN 13: 9780060646912

Publisher: HarperOne, 2003

Synopsis

"We've got some difficult days ahead," civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., told a crowd gathered at Memphis's Clayborn Temple on April 3, 1968. "But it really doesn't matter to me now because I've been to the mountaintop. . . . And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land."

These prophetic words, uttered the day before his assassination, challenged those he left behind to see that his "promised land" of racial equality became a reality; a reality to which King devoted the last twelve years of his life.

These words and others are commemorated here in the only major one-volume collection of this seminal twentieth-century American prophet's writings, speeches, interviews, and autobiographical reflections. A Testament of Hope contains Martin Luther King, Jr.'s essential thoughts on nonviolence, social policy, integration, black nationalism, the ethics of love and hope, and more.

About this title

From the Publisher:

An exhaustive collection of the speeches, writings, and interviews with the Nobel Prize-winning activist.

About the Author:

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), civil rights leader and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace, inspired and sustained the struggle for freedom, nonviolence, interracial brotherhood, and social justice.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperOne
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060646918
• ISBN 13: 9780060646912
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 736
• Editor: Washington James M.