Where Do We Go From Here

From A Call to Conscience

By: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Narrated by: Martin Luther King Jr.

Where Do We Go From Here is a selection from A Call to Conscience, a milestone collection of Dr. King's most influential and best-known speeches. Presented here with an introduction written and read by Senator Edward M. Kennedy.

Compiled by Stanford historian Dr. Clayborne Carson, director of the King Papers Project, and by contributing editor Kris Shepard, A Call to Conscience takes you behind the scenes on an astonishing historical journey, from the small, crowded church in Montgomery, Alabama, where "The Birth of a New Nation" ignited the modern civil rights movement; to the center of the nation's capital, where "I Have a Dream" echoed through a nation's conscience; to the Mason Temple in Memphis, where over 10,000 people heard Dr. King give his last, transcendent speech, "I've Been to the Mountaintop", the night before his assassination. In 12 important introductions, some of the world's most renowned leaders and theologians, Andrew Young, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and Mrs. Rosa Parks, among others, share with you their reflections on these speeches and give priceless firsthand testimony on the events that inspired their delivery.

Expressing a deeply felt faith in democracy, the power of loving change, and a self-deprecating humor, A Call to Conscience is Dr. King speaking today. It is a unique, unforgettable record of the words that rallied millions, forever changed the face of America, and even today shape our deepest personal hopes and dreams for the future.

©2001 The Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., All Rights Reserved (P)2006 Intellectual Properties Management, Inc.

Loved it

This will sharpen your saw. Growth is very important in business and gathering information is a must. Read and reread.

A Comprehensive King

We often learn MLK as a caricature created by individuals with agendas. These speeches present a compassionate, educated, religious, militant, humble, subversive, entrepreneurial and complex man. Praise God!

An unfinished message of economic empowerment!

Loved it. I have my family listening to the speech. It how far Blacks have come in certain areas and how some things haven't improved in 50 years.

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love ❤️ it very much get the book 📖 2 go with it and pass it on

Amazing! Have to buy the paperback

It's crazy how no matter how much time goes by that there is so much that remains the same. Dr. King shares his views on what a more diverse, inclusive, and more equitable America consists of.

A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches

I am paying homage to the late, great Reverand Doctor Martin Luther King Jr., on Martin Luther King Jr. Day by listening to some audiobooks of many of his various works. So, I kicked off my listening spree with a classic, "A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches."

While I've read a handful of his works throughout my schooling years - middle through college - I've been doing my best, in my adulthood, to circle back to many of these pieces of literature to gain a deeper understanding. I have learned, as I’ve aged, that many of these great pieces of literary works resonate differently with me now that my lived experience is colored with biases, discrimination, and judgment passed upon me, circumstances that have shaped my livelihood, and a slew of other factors that color my perspectives and influence the way I receive (and return) information. So, it’s been a beautiful journey revisiting these literary works and seeing how they FILL and COLOR my thoughts now. Many times, I find my overarching sentiment has been upheld through all these years, and other times I find I discover new understandings and appreciations for stances I may not have once fully agreed upon. Nonetheless, I knew I wanted to take a trip down a powerful and influential memory lane. To walk in the direction of faith and unwavering belief that the DREAM Reverand Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once had, is still a DREAM that persists today. Though it has taken on new shapes, and the battles fought now are still not too different from the battles fought then, and progress is still slow, there remains this sliver of HOPE. Slow and steady wins the race, they say, and I still must believe in that HOPE and that DREAM, that one day we will be, “Free at last. Free at last. Thank God, Almighty, we are free at last.” Until then, the battle will rage on.

So, if you have not already, please take some time today to indulge in some of Reverand Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s greatest literary works/speeches. On this momentous day, celebrating and honoring his legacy, it's just befitting to do so.

A must for all races of people!

This is a great book to for all races to read. It eloquently speaks to why black Americans struggle and how we've progressed and continue to progress as a people. It highlights how our minds, body and spirit must be on the same accord to move forward. Lastly...LOVE. We must never forget to love one another.

Powerful

I listened with awe. Everyone needs to read or hear this. But there is nothing as powerful as the voice and words of Dr. King.

The knowledge. Of the civil rights

Our voices wasn't heard we weren't taken seriously and people did not want to understand us and they did not have any empathy. They did not care that did not share. Oh, there was not loving to us. They wanted to keep us as slaves uneducated and not knowledge. Of our rights

Right Up There With Some Of King's Best Work!

Sen. Edward Kennedy makes a wonderful introduction with “Where Do We Go from Here”, one of the landmark speeches by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

This is one of King’s best speeches as he talks to America and the American Negroes about where do they go from here.

King is encouraging voter registration drives, he’s encouraging than they grow to straighten up and stand tall because “a man cannot ride your back if you stand up straight”.

He is also talking about community reinvestment acts for banks and homeownership for more people. King was way of ahead of his time it seems as he inspires people to begin thinking on these things. He applauded the new homeownership bill that was recently introduced at that time.

Also King was involved with Operation Breadbasket and he spoke frequently and strongly of black owned banks.
 
Below are some great quotes from this sermon as delivered by Martin Luther King Jr.

“The Negro still lives in the basement of the great Society” – Martin Luther King Junior

“Due to what has been done to the Negro through the ages, he has no resources for which to better his existence in America” – Martin Luther King Junior

“The Negro is still at the bottom, despite the few who had penetrated to slightly higher levels” - Martin Luther King Jr.

“Mobility for the Negro is still tightly restricted. There is usually no bottom at which to start, and very little room at the top” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“In consequence, the Negro finds himself being in on an impoverished island within an affluent a society” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“The Negro did not do this to himself, it was done to him. For more than half his existence in America he was a slave” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Of the good things in life, the Negro has half of what whites do. Of the bad things in life, the Negro has a double portion of what whites do” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“The Negro must throw off the mantle of self - abrogation. And say to himself and the rest of the world, I am somebody. I’m black, I’m beautiful and I’m proud. I am a person, and I have a rich and noble history no matter how painful and exploded at history has been” – Martin Luther King Jr.
 
Just beatifically and wonderfully said!!!