A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Category: Livres anglais et trangers,History,Americas
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches Details
"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.
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J'avais achet ce livre aprs avoir lu un trs bel article sur la pense de M.L.K. Malheureusement l'article aurait suffit: sur 600 pages, les discours et crits tournent en rond, rptant inlassablement les mmes thmes, rexpliquant encore et encore les notions cls de la pense de M.L.K. Au bout de seulement 100pages la lecture devient pnible tant a se rpte. Le sujet reste trs riche et instructif mais une bonne vingtaine d'crits au moins auraient pu tre omis afin de fluidifier la lecture de ce pav.
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