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In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this prophetic work, which has been unavailable for more than ten years, he lays out his thoughts, plans, and dreams for America's future, including the need for better jobs, higher wages, decent housing, and quality education. With a universal message of hope that continues to resonate, King demanded an end to global suffering, asserting that humankind-for the first time-has the resources and technology to eradicate poverty.

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Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of the greatest organic intellectuals in American history. His unique ability to connect the life of the mind to the struggle for freedom is legendary, and in this book-his last grand expression of his vision-he put forward his most prophetic challenge to powers that be and his most progressive program for the wretched of the earth.—Cornel West, professor of religion and African American studies, Princeton University, and author of Race Matters

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), Nobel Peace Prize laureate and architect of the nonviolent civil rights movement, was among the twentieth century's most influential figures. King is the author of several books, including Where Do We Go From Here? and Stride Toward Freedom, and countless speeches and sermons. King was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee on April 4, 1968.

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968), Nobel Peace Prize laureate and architect of the nonviolent civil rights movement, was among the twentieth century’s most influential figures. One of the greatest orators in U.S. history, King also authored several books, including Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, and Why We Can’t Wait. His speeches, sermons, and writings are inspirational and timeless. King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.

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Lionel(Bo)

Excellent read

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2023

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Glad I purchased this book for my collection. Great information. Knowledge is power.

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Mind-opening approach to a centuries-old problem

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2015

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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 livelihood. I long ago committed myself to nonviolence, but I have felt increasing pressure from my fellow activists to accept rioting as a legitimate form of protest. Reading Dr. King's work was a great assurance that there are nonviolent ways to achieve racial reconciliation. I lost track of how many times I highlighted in this book.

The only thing I have an issue with is how he proposes to deal with education. I taught in a mostly-black school so I absolutely understand his underlying point that black kids too often do not receive a quality education. However, he puts the blame on teachers, saying that they don't know how to teach and that a child's home environment shouldn't matter. I beg to differ that this is the case. I could cite studies to prove my point, but I would rather quote my actual students complaining of hunger, lack of sleep, feeling like they are not safe at home, etc. as reasons why they have trouble in school. If we are going to solve the problem of unequal education, we must also solve the problem of poverty. There is simply no other way around it. Children can't concentrate when they are hungry, homeless, or getting beat up at home. We have got to make the "war on poverty" a priority if we want to see lasting changes.

At any rate, I highly recommend this book, especially to my white friends!

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This is a must read for all human beings

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2024

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To advance our generations to come in the world we must to take action now. This is a must read for all who want to move to a better society.

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The Most Important Book you may ever read

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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.

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: A Revolutionary...And Radical, and Not a Dreamer!!!

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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 and abetted by the commitment, political courage and leadership of President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, scored powerful victories with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965.

But, almost concurrent with these historic legislative victories, urban ghettos exploded in riots, in 1964 and 1965, demonstrating to King, and the other leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, that demonstrations, marches, majestic, soaring rhetoric, and even federal legislation, was not going to be enough to change, on a fundamental basis, the predominant and prevailinig cultural, economic, political and social values and priorities in America.

A Southern backlash, against the Civil Right Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, urban riots in Northern cities, in spite of two major civil rights bills, the failure of King to integrate the suburbs, in and around Chicago, and the escalation of the Vietnam War, compelled him to take three months, during the latter part of 1966, and the first part of 1967, to write "Where Do We Go From Here: Community or Chaos".

King's goal was to outline and communicate the 2nd and most important phase of what he called the Movement. In this, his last and most powerful book, King set out the bold and radical changes, in American thought and action, that all Americans, Black and White, in and out of the civil rights movement, needed to take, in business, culture, economics, education, politics, and religion, to achieve what he called "a revolutionary re-ordering of American values and priorites.

Believe it or not, in this book, Dr. King deals with business, especially the power of boycotts, economics, education, jobs and job training, and the need for thoughtul and strategic engagement in politics, especially by Blacks, in an incredible amount of surprisingly bold and radical detail.

One of the major things Dr. King committed to do in this book was the momentous decision that probably led to his cowardly assassination, at the Lorraine Motel, in Memphis, Tennessee: the decision to come out, aggressively and boldy, against President Lyndon B. Johnson, the United States government, and the expensive and murderdous war in Vietnam.

But, at this point in Dr. King's career as a Minister of the Gospel, Civil Rights Leader, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, as he said on the last day on this Earth, he had "been to the Mountaintop, and had seen the Promised Land".

He was not afraid to, as he always put it, "Bear the Cross", so that the Americans, who live each day, working to achieve his vision of "the Beloved Community", could, one day, "wear the crown".

After reading this book, it's up to each of us to to take a long, hard look at what we have and have not done in our own communities, and decide whether, based on the bold, radical, and transformative ideas propounded by Dr. King in "Where Do We Go From Here: Community or Chaos", has led to success, which is community, or failure, which is chaos.

Even though most of us, especially our government and politicians, have not heeded Dr. King's warnings about the cost of not transforming the values and priorities of America, which, according to King, is "spiritual death", if we read and follow his advice, it's still not too late!!!

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Rafael Ladeira

Leitura indispensável para quem quer entender o mundo

Reviewed in Brazil on December 18, 2023

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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.

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camille wilson

The best history book

Reviewed in Canada on January 13, 2023

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You can't go wrong with a king book

Neasa MacErlean

Martin Luther's King's blueprint for the world

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2018

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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.

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Brilliant

Reviewed in Australia on March 29, 2018

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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.

Nyel

excellent livre toujours actuel

Reviewed in France on June 6, 2012

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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!

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