Nicole's Reviews > The Trumpet of Conscience

To read this collection of lectures given just months before he was killed is to realize how much we as a nation were deprived by having this great man taken from us.
"When culture is degraded and vulgarity enthroned, when the social system does not build security but induces peril, inexorably the individual is impelled to pull away from a soulless society. This process produces alienation--perhaps the most pervasive and insidious development in contemporary society." --page 44
Written in 1967, it could not be truer today. Reading those words, I mourn King anew.