{"product_id":"a-testament-of-hope-the-essential-writings-and-speeches","title":"A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, Martin Luther King Jr.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"gentle books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47242830577801,"sku":"9780060646912","price":50.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/9289\/1785\/files\/9780060646912.jpg?v=1783663891","url":"https:\/\/thisisgentle.com\/products\/a-testament-of-hope-the-essential-writings-and-speeches","provider":"gentle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}