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The courage to dream: on rights, values and freedom

Part of the Peace/religious/interfaith studies series
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'I have a dream' declared Martin Luther King in 1967.

Those words, which echoed round the world, soon became immortal.

King gave his life in the cause of eradicating racism, eliminating poverty and resolutely opposing all forms of war and violence.

This dialogue brings together two figures who likewise have striven in all their activities to promote peace and fight discrimination: one a Christian theologian, historian and nonviolent activist who knew King personally and who moved in 1958 from Chicago to the American South to participate in the nascent struggle for civil rights; the other a foremost Buddhist leader who has been inspired in his own thinking by King's example.

Vincent Harding and Daisaku Ikeda here bring the wisdom of their respective traditions and experiences to reflect on the personal cost of fighting for justice, and the courage that that entails.

Their conversations range widely, across issues which include war and violence, the continuing blight in America of institutionalized racism, the need to overcome global disparities of wealth and the consequent dangers of materialism and consumerism

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I. B. Tauris
085772973X / 9780857729736
eBook (EPUB)
323
23/10/2015
United Kingdom
English
264 pages
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