Why We Can't Wait Author:Martin Luther King, Jr. Why We Can't Wait is Martin Luther King's explanation of the events, the forces, the pressures behind today's-and tomorrow's-quest for civil rights. In this book for the first time: The complete, full-length text of Dr. King's famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail, in which he answers the churchmen who criticized him for "unwise and untimely" d... more »emonstrations, Dr. King's personal assessment of the pattern that the Negro Revolution will take in the future-a chapter in which he spells out clearly the full political implications of the civil rights movement...especially in an election year.« less