Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail is an incisive and inspiring piece of writing that remains a touchstone in the history of civil rights and social justice. Composed in 1963 while King was imprisoned for his participation in nonviolent protests against racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, the letter is a powerful and eloquent defence of civil disobedience in...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books The disenchanted, the disadvantaged and the disinherited seem, at times of deep crisis, to summon up some sort of genius that enables them to perceive and capture the appropriate weapons to carve out their destiny. Wielding his galvanising and idiosyncratic voice, this collection of electrifying and, at times, consoling speeches and...

A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart states that 'far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival.' Advocating love as strength and non-violence as the most powerful weapon there is, these sermons and writings from the heart of the civil rights movement exhibit Martin Luther...

A powerful collection of sermons by Martin Luther King, Jr., published in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time. As Martin Luther King, Jr. prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his best-known lectures. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail in...

A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech Our God Is Marching On, part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. At the end of the march from Selma to Montgomery on 25th March 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of a crowd and celebrated the demanding work and effort that had been done...