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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (King Legacy) Paperback – Illustrated, January 1, 2010

by Martin Luther Dr. King Jr. (Author), Vincent Harding (Introduction), Coretta Scott King (Foreword)

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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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Beacon Press
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January 1, 2010
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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. One of the greatest orators in US 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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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Beacon Press; Illustrated edition (January 1, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807000671
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807000670
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.49 x 0.65 x 8.47 inches

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Ed F

This is the book that changed my perspective on the ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2018

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This is the book that changed my perspective on the person and life of Dr. Martin Luther King. After imbibing the sanitized portrayal of this iconic personality for decades, this book showed me the man he was changing into before his murder 50 years ago. I had mistakenly assumed something about him before reading this book, his last published written work, and never truly understood why he was upheld with such high regard. I had read The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Soul on Ice by Eldrige Cleaver, and others, but never considered that King himself carried equal weight with such Civil Rights activists and thinkers. This book is well worth the money and the time to read it.

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Thomas Rexhouse

Make sure to get a legit version of the book.

Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2020

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I have only started this book and I’m sure I will love every page of it. HOWEVER, the introduction is written by Vincent Harding, a Democratic Socialist, and distracts from the main points of the work by demonizing capitalism. Very disappointed to see someone use such an important work to push such an evil ideology with such an abysmal record of failure and atrocities....I should have done my research and got a different version of the book.

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Elisabeth

Perhaps the most important book I'll read this year

Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2018

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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community is the last book Martin Luther King, Jr. penned before his assassination in 1968. It’s a series of essays in which Dr. King addresses the status of the Civil Rights movement, its progress, what has held it back and what he believes it will take to move it forward.

While it was written 50 years ago, I am stunned by how much of his writing is 100% relevant today. Not just because we have much yet to accomplish in the realm of race relations, but because we have much to accomplish in the realm of justice.

Read the rest of my review of Where Do We Go from Here at: http://www.literatureandleisure.com/2018/01/book-review-where-do-we-go-from-here/

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“The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.”

“While much has been done, it has been accomplished by too few and on a scale too limited for the breadth of the goal.”

“Freedom is not won by a passive acceptance of suffering. Freedom is won by a struggle against suffering.”

“What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.”

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

“White America must assume the guilt for the black man’s inferior status.”

These words were written in 1967. It is heartbreaking that the words of Martin Luther King Jr. are still needed over fifty years later. While there have been advancements in our society, we are still failing. This book is still relevant today, unfortunately. I encourage everyone to pick this book up and read it. It is vital.

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True Yesterday and Now. What Is True About Tomorrow?

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2017

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Martin Jr. was a great genius. What do I mean when I say that?
A genius knows what came before, is grounded in her/his culture, and has the courage to step into the unknown, knowing there is the possibility of great hope and great change.
Anyone looking for the philosophy of the Civil Rights of the last half of the Twentieth Century and its roots will appreciate this book.
It could have been written in any epoch for any marginalized people. It doesn't look the same as 500 or a thousand years ago; but it is. Martin Luther King Jr offers any who reads this an opportunity to be part of healing the wounds of racism.

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In 2015, in the wake of the decisions made by grand juries in Ferguson, Missouri and New York City, America is still asking the same question as the title of the book,Where do We Go From Here; Chaos or Community. Moreover, the violence in Ferguson achieved the same purpose as the 1965 Watts riots: It made Americans pay attention. Also, in the first part of the book Martin Luther King, Jr. seems to be describing a segment of American society that has not changed that much since 1967: the poor.
Also, King explains his philosophy of nonviolence and successfully describes how it can be an effective strategy to change a racist society. In effect, nonviolence weakened the institutions established by segregation by exposing their moral contradictions.
Yet, another passion drove King: integration. This was the most surprising part of the book. From what I read he believed in integration to a fault, arguing that African Americans should completely assimilate into white society. Many African Americans have followed this path, which has decimated African American communities.
Near the end of the book King presents his solution for addressing poverty and education, which is truly idealistic. For example, he suggests the government should create a fund to help fight poverty and education. However, King underestimated America’s perpetual flaw: its infatuation with capitalism, a system where 99% of the wealth is concentrated in less than 1% of population of America. Morally, Dr. King is right, but we're talking about America, where poverty has been become a criminal offense—a felony.
For too many African Americans, the America that King describes in his book still exists today. As a result, the African American community in twenty-first century America vacillates between chaos and community, much like in Charles Dickens’s novel, A Tale of Two Cities: African Americans are living in both the best and the worst of times; we have an African American President and African American males are being slaughtered in the streets of America.

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Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2021

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I was excited to read the final book MLK wrote, based on the title. I hoped for more theology than politics. As a historical document, its interesting, but i was expecting more. And I’m sorry. 🥲

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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.

A. Armstrong

The most inspiring book I've read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 8, 2018

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The most inspiring book I've read for a good couple of years. I ordered several copies more and distributed them as Christmas presents. What an extraordinarily brilliant and wise man - and so young!

Gay R

Excellent read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 12, 2020

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This book was recommended to me and I’m not disappointed that I bought it.

Gabz Campos

Good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 14, 2019

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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.

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