
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
In King Rules, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shares that message in a deeply personal collection of hard-learned lessons, timeless truths, and foundational principles.
Dr. Alveda King's words are lovingly crafted yet refreshingly blunt at a time when bluntness is needed to counter the forces of moral drift and empty relativism.
Beginning with a vulnerable admission of her own wounds and wanderings, Alveda unfolds eleven core values that have guided her family through generations of triumph and tragedy—and have played a pivotal role in fostering revolutionary change in society.
Out of a heart of compassion, she dispenses wise meditations on bedrock subjects including faith and family, peace and justice, education and civic life. With thoughtful conviction she also boldly tackles topics considered divisive in our postmodern world, from abortion and sexuality to gun control and marriage laws.
The King Rules is a page-turning narrative that blends eyewitness history with grandmotherly wisdom. And as J. C. Watts writes in the Foreword, the book is "more than Alveda's story, it's an account of the beliefs that redirected the course of a nation, that left us a legacy, and that hopefully will guide us again."
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Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- THE FAMILY TREE
- A WORD ABOUT NAMES
- RULE NO. 1: MAKE HOME A PRIORITY
- RULE NO. 2: SERVE YOUR FAMILY
- RULE NO. 3: GET A GOOD EDUCATION
- RULE NO. 4: GUARD YOUR HEART
- RULE NO. 5: DEFEND LIFE
- RULE NO. 6: FIGHT FOR JUSTICE
- RULE NO. 7: CARE FOR THE NEEDY
- RULE NO. 8: WORK FOR PEACE
- RULE NO. 9: BUILD THE BELOVED COMMUNITY
- RULE NO. 10: FIND YOUR JOY
- IF UNCLE M.L. COULD TWEET
- AFTERWORD
- SOURCES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR