Analysis Of Strength To Love By Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King is a respectable civil rights leader who devote himself to fight against discrimination and inequalities. King’s highly illustrative work, “Strength to Love,” reveals the deep meaning of “love,” which is not only altruism, but reciprocity, and the essential conditions, which he expresses as “Strength,” to love powerfully; this work strongly states that no matter what race, all citizens should be equal and be capable to love each other. Firstly, King gives foreshadowing to explain what love is. In the first two chapters, King illustrates that in order to love, people ought to build a combination of tough mind and a tender heart, named “nonviolence resistance” (King,8), and to persist in nonconformity but to remember to renew minds. Tough mind is “sharp and penetrating, breaking through

Above all, King elucidates that communism’s core is righteousness instead of judgment, and the most serious problem of the traditional capitalism is profit motives, and no one can find truth in either Marxism or Capitalism. And then, King expounds the benefits to believe in God and face our fears. He says that we can master fear through courage, love and faith. In addition, King provides Apostle Paul’s letter written to American Christians, to convey the suspicion that Americans’ spiritual progress cannot catch up their scientific advance, and to promote a hopeful huge progress of civilization. At the very end, King finally mentions the word, “nonviolence,” which he suggests in the whole sermon. He uses his own pilgrimage experience to bring us into an ideal state with liberalism and strength to love. In conclusion, Martin Luther King provides a great idea that all people need to constantly improve themselves and gain strength to love. In other words, everyone should dare to love, powerful enough to love, and be able to love each