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Sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
matured across the span of a life cut short. The range of his rhetoric was anticipated and encompassed within "The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life," which he preached as his trial sermon at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in 1954 and every year thereafter for the rest of his life.[4]
Sermons
• 1953 -- "The Three Dimensions of A Complete Life."[5] • 1954 -- "Rediscovering Lost Values," February 28, 1954. • 1956 -- "Paul’s Letter to American Christians," November 4, 1956. • 1957 -- "The Birth of a New Nation," April 7, 1957. • 1957 -- "Loving Your Enemies," November 17, 1957. • 1963 -- "Eulogy for the Martyred Children," September 18, 1963. (Birmingham, Alabama) • 1965 -- "How Long, Not Long.", also known as "Our God Is Marching On," March 25, 1965 . (Montgomery, Alabama) How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. They told us we wouldn’t get here, used by then US-presidential candidate Barack Obama in his victory-speech (first prelimonary) in Ohio 2008. • 1967 -- "Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool," also known as "A Knock at Midnight," August 27, 1967. (Chicago, Illinois) -- see Video at YouTube • 1968 -- I’ve Been to the Mountaintop," April 3, 1968. (Memphis, Tennessee) His final speech, and his final words in public: I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
Martin Luther King, Jr. at the podium on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963. The sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. comprise an extensive catalog of American writing and oratory — some of which are internationally well-known, while others remain unheralded, and some await re-discovery. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a prominent African American clergyman, a civil rights leader, and a Nobel laureate.[1] King himself observed, "In the quiet recesses of my heart, I am fundamentally a clergyman, a Baptist preacher."[2]
Speechwriter and orator
The famous "I Have a Dream" address was delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Less well-remembered are the early sermons of that young, twenty-five year-old pastor who first began preaching at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama in 1954.[3] As a political leader in the Civil Rights Movement and as a modest preacher in a Baptist church, King evolved and
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Sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
[5] Lischer, p. 81. [6] Nobel Prize: Nobel Peace Prize, acceptance speech [7] Nobel Prize: Nobel Peace Prize, laureate lecture [8] Dayton, Ohio:Un-named Speech Speech given at McFarlin Auditorium, Southern Methodist University March 17, 1966, drawn from same sources as April 10, 1957 St. Louis, Mo. speech. Speech can be heard at:
Speeches
• 1955 "Montgomery Improvement Association mass meeting speech," December 5, 1955. (Montgomery, Alabama) • 1957 -- "A Realistic Look at the Question of Progress in the Area of Race Relations," April 10, 1957. (St. Louis, Missouri) • 1957 -- "Give Us the Ballot," May 17, 1957. (Washington, D.C.) • 1963 -- "Great March on Detroit speech," June 23, 1963. (Detroit, Michigan) • 1963 -- "I Have a Dream," August 28, 1963 (Washington D.C) • 1964 -- "Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech," December 10, 1964 (Stockholm).[6] • 1964 -- "The Quest for Peace and Justice," December 11, 1964 (Stockholm).[7] • 1964 -- "(Un-named Speech)." November 29, 1964. (Dayton, Ohio) [8] • 1967 --"Beyond Vietnam," April 4, 1967. (New York, New York) • 1967 -- "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam." April 30, 1967.
References
• Fuller, Linda K. (2004). National Days/ National Ways: Historical, Political, And Religious Celebrations Around The World. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. 10-ISBN 0-275-97270-4; 13-ISBN 978-0-275-97270-7 • Lischer, Richard. (1997). The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word That Moved America. New York: Oxford University Press. 10-ISBN 0-195-11132-X: 13-ISBN 978-0-195-11132-3
Notes
[1] Nobel Prize: Martin Luther King bio [2] Lischer, Richard. (2001). The Preacher King, p. 3. [3] Fuller, Linda K. (2004). National Days/ National Ways: Historical, Political, And Religious Celebrations around the World, p. 314. [4] Lischer, p. 66.
External links
• "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam" 1967 -- see Video at YouTube • "A Knock at Midnight," 1967 -- see Video at YouTube • ’"Beyond Vietnam," 1967 • A longer list of speeches & sermons
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