Martin Luther King: Interview with Playboy Magazine
Martin Luther King Jr., In addition to being one of the best-known civil rights icons in history, was also an advocate for the separation of church and state. In an interview with Playboy magazine he stated that: "In a pluralistic society such as ours, who is to determine what prayer shall be spoken, and by whom? Legally, constitutionally or otherwise, the state certainly has no such right."
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Martin Luther King's Book of Sermons, "Strength to Love"In 1963 King published a book of his sermons including Loving Your Enemies, Paul's Letter to American Christians, A Knock at Midnight, A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart, and Three Dimensions of a Complete Life. In these sermons he says that "I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian" and goes on to support those who have no religion and finds their commitment to a political cause in some cases more focused that those who confuse it with religion.
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