I Have a Dream - 40th Anniversary Edition: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World"HIS LIFE INFORMED US, HIS DREAMS SUSTAIN US" -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 s |
Contents
| 3 | |
| 14 | |
The Power of Nonviolence 1958 | 29 |
The Dream Enters World History 19591964 | 37 |
Letter from a Birmingham Jail 1963 | 83 |
Have a Dream 1963 | 101 |
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 1964 | 107 |
The Dream Is Deferred 19631968 | 113 |
Our God Is Marching On 1965 | 119 |
14 | 125 |
A Prophet Foresees the Future 19671968 | 167 |
19 | 180 |
Index | 204 |
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