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<p>"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."</p> <p>These prohetic 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.</p> <p>These words and other are commemorated here in the only major one-volume collection of this seminal twentieth-century American prophet's writings, speeches, interviews, and autobiographical reflections. <b>A Testament of Hope</b> contains Martin Luther King, Jr.'s essential thoughts on nonviolence, social policy, integration, black nationalism, the ethics of love and hope, and more.</p> <p>An indispensable resource: a powerful, moving collection of Martin Luther King's writings, speeches, interviews, excerpts from five of his books an
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- Author
- Martin Luther King, Jr.; James Melvin Washington
- Publisher
- Harper San Francisco
- Published
- 1986
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780060646912
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Social Science, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.52 / 5 (1,693 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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