Exploring Chaos and Community: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy

Kindle Customer StPeteCA: This is the last book Martin Luther King wrote. It tells the story of the civil rights movement as it occurred. Fascinating to hear the details. This aspect alone would be worth reading but realizing that when it was written the path forward is amazing. The last line asks you to chose community or chaos. This book is a gift to humanity.

United States on Jan 30, 2024

Ekayani: I was ignorant to how many books and writings Dr King created in his brief lifetime. I think the title says it all.

United States on Dec 30, 2023

Rafael Ladeira: Esse foi o terceiro livro de King que li, como os anteriores, é um livro que deveria ser de leitura obrigatória.

Como infelizmente acontece, pessoas como King que podem fazer a diferença no mundo são eliminadas para que tudo fique como está, um grande caos.

Brazil on Dec 18, 2023

Lionel(Bo): Glad I purchased this book for my collection. Great information. Knowledge is power.

United States on Nov 18, 2023

camille wilson: You can't go wrong with a king book

Canada on Jan 13, 2023

Neasa MacErlean: This book explains the wider context of MLK's non-violence movement and suggests ways that all of us, black and white, should go forward. But he wrote it in 1967 and I don't see that we are that much nearer. Certainly, the growth of nationalism, fear of immigrants and characters such as Donald Trump and Boris Johnson and Matteo Salvini are sending us down the wrong path. As MLK says: "Power and morality must go together, implementing, fulfilling and ennobling each other..." And he explains why hate and fear make such a bad basis for politics: "Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate." And he concludes: "Hate is too great a burger to bear." It's a marvellous book, not long, easy to read. If we don't follow it in the next 50 years, I really wonder where we will end up — in a time like the 1930s or 1940s, perhaps.

United Kingdom on Jul 30, 2018

Kindle Customer: All my life I have been falsely taught to believe that Martin Luther king Jrs philosophy was all about turn the other cheek. This misconception had spurred me to admire Malcolm X a bit more. However after reading Martin's book in his own words, he was indeed a clever revolutionary leader who fully understood the dynamics of his people's situation and how to radically change the status quo without shedding blood. Malcolm X philosophy made sense, but in a society that you are vastly outnumbered, military confrontation would have been suicidal.

Australia on Mar 29, 2018

JustReading2008: This book -- and by extension, its author -- SO FAR AHEAD OF ITS TIME.

I was inspired to read it after visiting the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, GA. There, I learned that Dr. King was so much more than the flat, watered-down version presented in my high school history books. He was a real man with profound thoughts, agonizing feelings, and boundless hope. He was almost certainly a genius as well as a humanitarian, gifted speaker and eloquent writer. I learned so much from this book.

Dr. King almost effortlessly makes an airtight case for civil rights, knocking down excuse after persistent excuse about why we should not be involved and just let things "happen." He says (I'm paraphrasing) that no one's rights are GIVEN to them, they must DEMAND their rights. And if history tells us anything, that is 100% true -- not just for black people, but for women, LGBT people, disabled people and so on.

Something else I loved was his uncompromising position on nonviolent resistance. I grow increasingly concerned every time I hear people say that rioting is an acceptable form of protest, when it results in injury, death, and the destruction of people's...

United States on Aug 13, 2015

Nyel: Ce n'est pas parce qu'un livre a été écrit il y a plusieurs décennies qu'il est dépassé. Martin Luther King reste très actuel dans tout ce qu'il a écrit. Et on trouverait sans problème dans cet ouvrage des citations qu'on pourrait appliquer à nos sociétés du XXIè s. A lire et à relire!

France on Jun 06, 2012

The Tower with the Power: I recommend that anyone, who still believes that the late, great Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only a "dreamer" and an "integrationist", and not a creative, strategic thinker, and genuine radical and revolutionary, in the image and spirit of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, Marcus Garvey, and others, purchase, from Amazon.com, and then read, re-read, and think deeply about, "Where Do We Go From Here: Community or Chaos".

Since his assassination on April 4, 1968, most Americans, Black and White, have fond memories of Dr. King's famous "I Have A Dream" speech, which was the highlight of the August, 1963, March on Washington and rally at the Lincoln Memorial.

While no one can deny the greatness of that historic speech, what most people don't know is that, a few years later, Dr. King repudiated his "I Have A Speech Dream" speech as hopelessly naive because, at that time, he did not realize that America's "individualism, militarism, and racism" was tantamount to a "nightmare", deeply embedded in the fabric of American culture, politics, economic and social policy.

After the March on Washington, and the "I Have A Dream" speech, King and the Civil Rights movement, aided...

United States on Jan 31, 2012