A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches Choose Your Own from the working-class ex-grunt to

from the working-class ex-grunt to the pompous college student

who learned to forgive her captors

to Manhattan and London

with loved ones

Detailed instructions for making candles

A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches Choose Your Own from the working-class ex-grunt to"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." These prophetic words, uttered the day before his assassination,