"Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is love correcting everything which stands against love."
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

His words stirred a generation to change--and outlined a timeless, practical way to economic freedom and true democracy. Compiled by Dr. Clayborne Carson, director of the King Papers Project, and editor Kris Shepard, this is a milestone collection of Dr. King's most influential, best-known speeches...from the words that ignited the modern civil rights movement to the last, transcendent speech the night before Dr. King's assassination. Filled with world-renowned leaders' priceless firsthand testimony of the events that inspired these speeches, A CALL TO CONSCIENCE is a living, unforgettable record of the words that even today shape our deepest hopes and dreams for the future.