Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

  Rare Dr Martin Luther King Jr Speaking on Federal Subsidies for White Land Owners HQ “At the very same time that America refused to give the Negro any land, through an act of congress our government was giving away millions of acres of land in the West and the Midwest, which meant that it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor. But not only did they give the land, they built land grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that, they provided county agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that, they provided low interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms. Not only that, today many of these people are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to farm and they are the very people telling the Black man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. This is what we are faced with and this is the reality. Now, when we come to Washington in this campaign, we’re comi...

 Author:  King, Martin Luther, Jr. Date:  September 26, 1954 Location:  Montgomery, Ala. Genre:  Sermon Topic:  Martin Luther King, Jr. - Career in Ministry Download Document:  View Document Details In this handwritten text, King explains that each person can have a meaningful life: “Discover your calling. Then give your heart soul and mind to it. And thereby life will present you with meaning that you never thought was there. You are on the road to creating the abundant life.” 1 Subject: “Creating the Abundant Life” Text: I come that you might have life John 10:10 I It is a very common thing to see people wandering into the world looking for life. They never get it. What they get is existence. Existence is something that you find; life is something that you create. Existence is the mere raw material from which all life is created. Therefore if life ever seems worth while to you it will not be because you found it that w...

 Author:  King, Martin Luther, Jr. Date:  July 11, 1954 How do we determine conjectured information?  ? Location:  Montgomery, Ala. Genre:  Sermon Topic:  Martin Luther King, Jr. - Career in Ministry Download Document:  View Document Details In this handwritten and dated version of a sermon King had been developing since his seminary years, he stresses that all people are created in God's image and bear a responsibility to live accordingly. 1 King draws upon Harry Emerson Fosdick in calling for “a church that shall be a fountainhead of a better social order. We can taIk all we want to about saving souls from hell and preaching the pure and simple gospel, but unless we preach the social gospel our evangelistic gospel will be meaningless.” “What is man that thou art mindful of him?” 2 This question flowing from the lips of the Psalmist is one of the most important questions facing any generation. The whole political, s...

 Author:  King, Martin Luther, Jr. Date:  July 4, 1954 Location:  Montgomery, Ala. Genre:  Sermon Topic:  Martin Luther King, Jr. - Career in Ministry Download Document:  View Document Details During another weekend trip from Boston to Montgomery, King preached the following sermon at Dexter. Drawing ideas from Harry Emerson Fosdick’s “Christianity Not a Form but a Force, " King asserts: “Christ is more concerned about our attitude towards racial prejudice and war than he is about our long processionals. He is more concerned with how we treat our neighbors than how loud we sing his praises.” 1 In the seventh chapter of Matthew's Gospel we find these pressing words flowing from the lips of our Lord and Master: “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my father which is in Heaven.” 2 In these words Jesus is placing emphasis on a concrete practical ...

 Author:  King, Martin Luther, Jr. Date:  April 4, 1954 Location:  Montgomery, Ala. Genre:  Sermon Topic:  Martin Luther King, Jr. - Career in Ministry Download Document:  View Document Details Dexter's congregation voted unanimously to call King as their new pastor in early March 1954. 1 Several weeks after the vote, King returned to meet with the church's pulpit committee regarding the details of their offer. At that time, he preached the following sermon, which has the same text, themes, and structure as Rediscovering Lost Values, a sermon he had delivered at Detroit's Second Baptist Church five weeks earlier. 2 In this typed manuscript, King reasons with his audience, “If we are to go forward we must go back and find God.” Furthermore, he asserts, “Our problem lies in the fact that through our scientific genius we have made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral genius we have failed to make of it a brother...

 Author:  King, Martin Luther, Jr. Date:  February 28, 1954 Location:  Detroit, Mich. Genre:  Sermon Topic:  Martin Luther King, Jr. - Career in Ministry Download Document:  View Document Details During the trip to Michigan that included an address to the Lansing NAACP and a sermon at his uncle’s church, King delivered this sermon at Detroit’s Second Baptist Church. The Reverend Edward C. Simmons, an assistant pastor, introduced King, mentioning that “his father has preached for us several times.” In this sermon King declares, “The great problem facing modern man is that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live.” Citing the biblical story of how Joseph and Mary had to return to Jerusalem because they left Jesus behind after the Passover feast, King tells the congregation: “If we are to go forward, if we are to make this a better world in which to live, we’ve got to go back. We’ve got...