"This useful collection takes King from the front lines of Southern segregation to a national movement for economic equality to an international condemnation of imperialism and armed intervention." -- Kirkus Reviews "King's skills as a preacher and rhetorician are amply in evidence, as is his profound empathy with others."  -- Publishers Weekly "The radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies. The response of the radical King to our catastrophic moment can be put in one word: revolution--a revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life, and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens. Could it be that we know so little of the radical King because such courage defies our market-driven world?" --Cornel West, from the Introduction   "There is another America, and that other America has a daily ugliness about it that transforms the buoyancy of hope into the fatigue of despair. By the millions, people in the other America find themselves perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. The great tragedy is that the nation continues in its national policy to ignore the conditions that brought the riots or the rebellions into being. The problem with a riot is that it can always be halted by superior force, so I couldn't advise that.

On the other hand, I couldn't advise following a path of Martin Luther King just sitting around signing statements, and writing articles condemning the rioters, or engaging in a process of timid supplications for justice. The fact is that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed--that's the long, sometimes tragic and turbulent story of history." --"The Other America," delivered by Dr. King at the Local 1199's "Salute to Freedom," New York City, March 10, 1968.