Volume 9, Number 3 · August 24, 1967
Soul Power
By Andrew Kopkind
Where Do We Go From Here: Chags or Community?
by Martin Luther King Jr.
Harper & Row, 209 pp., $4.95
The Movement is dead; the Revolution is unborn. The streets are bloody and ablaze, but it is difficult to see why, and impossible to know for what end. Government on every level is ineffectual, helpless to act either in the short term or the long. The force of Army and police seems not to suppress violence, but incite it. Mediators have no space to work; they command neither resources nor respect, and their rhetoric is discredited in all councils, by all classes. The old words are meaningless, the old explanations irrelevant, the old remedies useless. It is the worst of times.
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