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''Love, Law and Civil Disobedience,'' Address on 11/16/1961

https://okra.stanford.edu/link/document640000-045
Author
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Place Written
Denver, Colo.
Document Date
1964
Genre
Speech
Document Type
Document
Type of Writing
Printed -- published
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Author
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Author Dates
1929-1968
Document ID
640000-045
Document Date
1964
Type of Writing
Printed -- published
Document Type
Document
Status
Undecided
Place Written
Denver, Colo.
Genre
Speech
Document Length
12 pp.
Published In
Roy L. Hill, ed. Rhetoric of Racial Revolt, Denver, Colo.: Golden Bell Press, 1964, pp. 345-356.
Dates
11/16/1961
Names
Gandhi, Mahatma
Tilly, Dorothy Rogers
Machiavelli, Niccolo
Lenin, Vladimir Ilich
Plato
Poe, Edgar Allan
Shakespeare, William
Ovid
Bryant, William Cullen
Lowell, James Russell
Jesus Christ
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Carlyle, Thomas
Socrates
Hitler, Adolf
Organizations
Fellowship of the Concerned
Southern Regional Council
Places
Terrell County, Ga.
Montgomery, Ala.
South Africa
Jackson, Miss.
Topics
Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas
Natural law
Civil Disobedience
Communism
Sit-ins
Nonviolence
Freedom rides
Student movements
Agape
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Public Speaking
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Publications - Reprints
Other Topics
The Apology
The Crito
Annabelle Lee
Sonnet 116
Matthew 5:44
Matthew 10:34
Code for Location of Original
MLKPP
Location of Original
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Date Created
11/4/1999 12:00:00 AM
Date Verified
11/05/1999
Date Updated
4/8/2025 8:27:02 AM
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