Books with author Martin L. King

Everywhere around us the clock is ticking. Everyone has a mission they are trying to achieve. Some are exciting - climb mountains, wrestle animals, train serpents. Some are important - cure cancer, translate languages, capture criminals. Some are, well, boring - make beds, wash dishes, pull weeds. And then some are commanded. Commanded? Yes, commanded. If we are Christians - if we have put our trust in the Lord, repented from our sins and given our lives to Him - we have a mission of our own. Your Mission is written in God's Word - The Bible. It is not all about you though - it's about honouring God by the way you live.

"His life informed us, his dreams sustain us yet." - from the Citation of the posthumous award of the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., July 4, 1977 Martin Luther King's twenty most memorable writings and speeches are presented in this concise and convenient paperback edition. Among the famed civil rights leader's most influential words included here are the keynote address of the 1963 march on Washington: the "I Have A Dream" speech, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," the essay "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence," and "I See the Promised Land," the sermon he preached the day before he was assassinated. Editor James M. Washington has arranged the selections chronologically, providing headnotes for each selection that give a running history of the Civil Rights movement and related events. In his introduction, Washington assesses King's time and significance. As Coretta Scott King points out in her forward, "with the publication of this edition of I Have A Dream: Writings and Speeches that Changed the World, we now have an accessible, yet representative anthology of Martin Luther King's writings." 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. James M Washington, professor of theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, is a leading authority on Martin Luther King Jr., and American religious history.