B I B L I O N - A C H R I S T I A N B OO K P U B L I C AT I O N
about that notable figure, whose bold
approach to love and non-violence
became the example for the social
reforms King sought to implement.
According to King, it was Gandhi
who first raised Jesus’ ethics beyond
the mere interaction among indivi-
duals, employing it as a powerful and
efficient large-scale social force. King
believed that for Gandhi, love was a
potent tool of social and collective
transformation.
Mahatma Gandhi inspired the
African-Americans of Montgomery,
AL, to start a social movement of great
dignity. While Jesus inspired them to
use love as a creative weapon in acts
of protest, the African-American
community created the most powerful
weapon in their fight for freedom by
combining Gandhi’s methodology of
non-violence to the Christian doctrine
of love.
Montgomery’s Civil Rights Mo-
vement is born in response to Rosa
Parks’ refusal to leave her bus seat for
a white passenger. She was arrested,
and King delivers the most decisive
speech of his life in her defense. There
began the overreaching process that,
after many years and many deaths
later, culminated in the end of racial
segregation.
A Unique Content
This work becomes even more pre-
cious by transcribing the most im-
portant written messages of Martin
Luther King, Jr. – some of them com-
plete – from a speech contest he
won at age 14 to his very last speech.
To those readers interested in kno-
wing more about this remarkable
figure, here’s what they will be able
to find:
• First sermon as minister of
Dexter Av. Baptist Church, in
Atlanta
• The most decisive, albeit im-
provised, speech of his life at
the start of the Montgomery
Bus Boycott movement
• Speech on Mahatma Gandhi
• Prison journals and telegrams
sent to President Kennedy du-
ring the Albany movement, in
the summer of 1962
• Birmingham’s Prison Letter
directed to eight clergymen
from various religious groups –
clergymen who had criticized
the rallies and the “extremism”
of King’s actions
• “I Have A Dream” speech at
the March on Washington
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