A TESTAMENT OF HOPE

We've got some difficult days ahead civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. told a crowd gathered at Memphis's Clayborn Temple on April 3 1968. But it really doesn't matter to me now because I've been to the mountaintop. . . . And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.These prophetic words uttered the day before his assassination challenged those he left behind to see that his promised land of racial equality became a reality; a reality to which King devoted the last twelve years of his life.These words and others are commemorated here in the only major one-volume collection of this seminal twentieth-century American prophet's writings speeches interviews and autobiographical reflections. A Testament of Hope contains Martin Luther King Jr.'s essential thoughts on nonviolence social policy integration black nationalism the ethics of love and hope and more.