About the Book: A Gift of Love
He inspired a generation ...He changed the course of history Barack Obama As
Martin Luther King, Jr. prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he
drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his best-known
lectures. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail in
July 1962 and A Gift of Love includes these classic sermons, along with two new
lectures. Drawing inspiration from both his Christian faith and the non-violent
philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi, A Gift of Love illustrates Kings vision of love
and peaceful action as social and political