Martin Luther King, Jr. (Ethics (Ready Reference series))
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Influenced chiefly by the Indian liberator Mahatma Gandhi and the southern black evangelical tradition, King combined nonviolent activism and Christian theology in his ethic of social change. He maintained throughout his public career that he was not seeking to change only laws but also attitudes, so that people of all races and classes could live in the Beloved Community, a concept borrowed from Social Gospel advocate Walter Rauschenbusch. Central to King’s philosophy was an ethic of love...
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