A Gift of Love

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 King's vision of love and peaceful action as social and political forces for change.