El crit de la consci\u00e8ncia (\u201cThe Trumpet of Conscience\u201d) features the lectures that Martin Luther King delivered in November and December 1967 \u2013 a few months before his assassination \u2013 for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The CBC had explicitly asked him to speak about the issues he considered most important, not for blacks, nor for the United States, but for the world at large. The book reveals some of King\u2019s most introspective reflections and his last impressions of the movement he himself had inspired. They are, in a sense, a synthesis of his thought and could be considered to be his testament.
\nThus he talks about issues that have been concerning him over the last few months: the need to transform nonviolent protests into mass civil disobedience; the conviction that it was necessary to resist participation in the Vietnam War, and that committed youth should play a decisive role in the creation of a new world, or the need to pursue his dream of universal peace.
\nThrough the five lectures, corresponding to the five chapters of the book, King highlights a different aspect of the civil rights struggle in the United States. In his first talk, \u201cImpasse in Race Relations,\u201d he explains his concern for the unlikelihood of social equality in the United States and proposes civil disobedience as a constructive force. The second lecture, \u201cConscience and the Vietnam War,\u201d focuses on opposition to the war. \u201cYouth and Social Action,\u201d King\u2019s third lecture, envisions the power of a united youth front and the strength of their activism for social change. In the fourth chapter, \u201cNonviolence and Social Change,\u201d King defends nonviolence as the best tool to convince the wielders of power to respond to poverty. Finally, King\u2019s concluding speech was a live broadcast of his 1967 Christmas Eve sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church.
\nThe book, published by ICIP and Angle Editorial in the \u201cClassics of peace and nonviolence\u201d series, is a re-edition of Terenci Moix\u2019s 1968 translation of \u201cThe Trumpet of Conscience,\u201d published in 1967. This new edition features an introduction by Vicent Mart\u00ednez Guzm\u00e1n, PhD in Philosophy and honorary director of the UNESCO Chair of Philosophy for Peace, and includes the epilogue written by Josep Maria Ainaud de Lasarte for the 1968 edition.
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\nMartin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, the son and grandson of pastors of Ebenezer Baptist Church. From an early age he became aware of the situation of social and racial segregation in which black citizens of his country lived, especially in the southern states. After becoming a Baptist pastor, he took over the church in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1954. Starting in 1955, he led the struggle of black Americans to achieve equal rights with whites.
\nHis nonviolent action, inspired by Gandhi, mobilized more and more citizens, culminating in the historic March on Washington in the summer of 1963, with the participation of 250,000 demonstrators. That is when King delivered the most famous and moving of his splendid speeches: I Have a Dream. In 1964 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, four years before he was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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