The strength to love - 17 speeches by Pastor Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King was a Baptist minister. A non-violent activist for the civil rights of blacks in the United States, for peace and against poverty, he organized and led actions to defend the right to vote, desegregation and employment of ethnic minorities. Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1964, he was assassinated in Memphis in 1968.
These 17 speeches by Pastor Martin Luther King carry a message of militant non-violence and have a force of conviction that carries us away and engages us.
Martin Luther King spoke out particularly against conformism and the fear of change. To help us overcome the forces of inertia, he asserts that: “we must not be thermometers which indicate the temperature of the majority, but thermostats which transform and regulate the temperature of society”.
It reminds Christians that they must conform not to the world, but to the message of Jesus Christ. Innovation, creativity, struggle and transformation, these are the appeals that this Baptist pastor addressed to his parishioners, to American society and to the world.
A remedy against the moral and financial crisis that our society is going through, this book is still remarkably relevant today.
