"Loving Your Enemies"
Sermon
By: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Date: November 17, 1957
Source: King, Martin Luther, Jr., Speeches. "Loving Your Enemies," November 17 1957. Available online at http://www.mlkonline.com/ (accessed February 10, 2003).
About the Author: Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1954 and received his doctorate from Boston University in 1955. Instrumental in the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, he advocated nonviolence in the Civil Rights movement. He was a major organizer of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott in 1956 and the March on Washington in 1963. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, but four years later was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
Introduction
In then racially segregated Alabama, the Montgomery bus...
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