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Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.

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motishead's review against another edition

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hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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5.0

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.

Full review here: http://www.literatureandleisure.com/2018/01/book-review-where-do-we-go-from-here/

zoraisrising's review against another edition

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informative reflective slow-paced

I wanted to read this book to do a closer read of the Reverend doctors, actual writing, especially in context of the last year of his life and the seems he was thinking through in terms of community building and organizing and pushing for change and sustainable community change and like think about it now in the context of our current social political climate And as I was reading it, I felt like I was getting sense is rather than the myth and with the myth of him is there was plenty of things I found compelling, but also other things that I didn’t quite agree with or struggling to agree with particular to work and resources, but what I found in particular we difficult to navigate was the last few pages and what he was talking about in regarding commune ism and the fight against communism historically speaking I’ve always found it really difficult with historical figures talk about communism in a particular way I.e “the fight against it” but overall the passage on love as well as his thoughts on voting were incredibly compelling. Gonna need to get my own copy to refer back to

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challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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outcolder's review against another edition

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[a:Bill Ayers|9966|Bill Ayers|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1266889622p2/9966.jpg]'s "To Teach" quotes from this a few times, and it was always something that makes you go 'hmm' so I got the book. It's the last book-length writing from MLK and I think it was published after the assassination. MLK is dealing with the criticisms from the 'black power' groups while trying to move past some of the more limited short term goals of the civil rights movement and begin the 'poor peoples movement' in the bigger cities.

The book changed my view of MLK. I guess I had the symbolic meaning of MLK and the idea of him as man of nonviolent direct action, and I've been much more familiar with speeches and writings from Malcolm X and the Black Panthers than anything King wrote or said. This book reveals an MLK who is deeply concerned with philosophy and theory and how it informs his praxis. So I guess what I'm saying is, there's a lot more to MLK than you'd get from the Dream speech or Letter from a Birmingham Jail, and its all very right on.

One thing that's kind of sad maybe is how topical the book remains. We're still dealing with "guided missiles and misguided men."