"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice

Foreword

Editor's Note

General Introduction

PART I
All of God’s Children: Toward a Global Vision of Human Liberation
Introduction
“The Vision of a World Made New”
— Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., Annual Meeting of the Women’s Convention Auxiliary, National Baptist Convention, St. Louis, Missouri, September 9, 1954

“The World House”
— Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr., from Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)

“Revolution and Redemption”
— Address by Martin Luther King, Jr., European Baptist Assembly, Amsterdam, Holland, August 16, 1964

PART II
Confronting the Color Bar: Overcoming Racism as a World Problem
Introduction
“Declaration of Conscience”
— Joint Statement on South African Apartheid by Martin Luther King, Jr., Bishop James A. Pike, and Eleanor Roosevelt, Under the Auspices of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), New York, New York, July 1957

“Appeal for Action Against Apartheid”
— Joint Statement on South African Apartheid by Martin Luther King, Jr., and Chief Albert John Luthuli, Under the Auspices of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), New York, New York, July 1962

“South African Independence”
— Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., London, England, December 7, 1964

“Let My People Go”
— South Africa Benefit Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., Hunter College, New York, New York, December 10, 1965

“Invitation to South Africa”
— Letter from Martin Luther King, Jr., to the South African Embassy, February 9, 1966

“On the World Taking a Stand on Rhodesia”
— Comment by Martin Luther King, Jr., Paris, France, October 25, 1965

“Racism and the World House”
— Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr., from Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)

PART III
Breaking the Chains of Colonialism: The Rise of Peoples of Color in the Third World
Introduction
“Invitation to Ghana”
— Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama, March 1957

“The Birth of a New Nation”
— Sermon by Martin Luther King, Jr., Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, April 7, 1957

“Introduction to Southwest Africa: The U.N.’s Stepchild”
— Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr., published by the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), October 1959

“My Talk with Ben Bella”
— Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr., New York Amsterdam News, New York, New York, October 27, 1962

“The Negro Looks at Africa”
— Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr., New York Amsterdam News, New York, New York, December 8, 1962

“Palm Sunday Sermon on Mohandas K. Gandhi”
— Sermon by Martin Luther King, Jr., Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, March 22, 1959

“My Trip to the Land of Gandhi”
— Article by Martin Luther King, Jr., Ebony, July 1959

“Jawaharlal Nehru, a Leader in the Long Anti-Colonial Struggle”
— Article by Martin Luther King, Jr., from Legacy of Nehru, Atlanta, Georgia, February 8, 1965

PART IV
For the Least of These: Launching the Global War on Poverty
Introduction
“The Octopus of Poverty”
— Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr., The Mennonite, January 5, 1965

“Poverty and the World House”
— Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr., from Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)

“Nonviolence and Social Change”
— Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr., from The Trumpet of Conscience (1968)

PART V
To Study War No More: An Affirmation of World Peace and Human Coexistence
Introduction
“Address at the Thirty-sixth Annual Dinner of the War Resisters League”
— Address by Martin Luther King, Jr., New York, New York, February 2, 1959

“The Greatest Hope for World Peace”
— Statements by Martin Luther King, Jr., prepared for Redbook Magazine, November 5, 1964

“The Casualties of the War in Vietnam”
— Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., The Nation Institute, Beverly-Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California, February 25, 1967

“Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”
— Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam (CALC), Riverside Church, New York, New York, April 4, 1967

“The Middle East Question”
— Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Chicago, September 1967

“War and the World House”
— Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr., from Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)

PART VI
Toward a Positive Pluralism: Interfaith Dialogue and Global Community
Introduction
“Christianity and African Religions”
— Excerpted statement by Martin Luther King, Jr., from Ebony, September 1958

“I Have Never Been a Religious Bigot”
— Letter from Martin Luther King, Jr., to Mr. M. Bernard Resnikoff, Fairlawn, New Jersey, September 17, 1961

“A Narrow Sectarianism That Causes Me Real Concern”
— Letter from Martin Luther King, Jr., to Dr. Harold E. Fey, editor of The Christian Century, June 23, 1962

“All the Great Religions of the World”
— Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr., prepared for Redbook Magazine, November 5, 1964

“My Jewish Brother!”
— Article by Martin Luther King, Jr., New York Amsterdam News, New York, New York, February 26, 1966

“Buddhists and Martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement”
— Joint Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thich Nhat Hanh, International Committee of Conscience on Vietnam, Nyack, New York, 1966

A Note on Sources
Index