MLK: Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence (Full)

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. - April 4, 1967 - Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence Full and unabridged.

Personal favorite quotes:

"I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent."


"We are adding cynicism to the process of death, for they must know after a short period there that none of the things we claim to be fighting for are really involved. Before long they must know that their government has sent them into a struggle...and the more sophisticated surely realize that we are on the side of the wealthy, and the secure, while we create a hell for the poor."


"This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."


"A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor -- both black and white -- through the poverty program. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. Then came the buildup in Vietnam, and I watched this program broken and eviscerated, as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube."

-MLK



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[TheMostAwesomeMan242]

Parts of this speech can be found in Linkin Park's Wisdom, Justice and Love.

[BonominHabbo]

Wisdom, Justice And Love - Martin Luther King and Linkin Park : 01:41 and 42:49

[bwj999]

This is an amazing speech and shows to me how truly brilliant he was, not just in the understanding of racism at home, but of global issues of religion, politics and corporate greed

[chefrastai]

@jjhanks

they're more in tune with the mainstream 'i have a dream' speech

[JJhankz]

It's depressing that this only has 382 views. I bet 95% of those didn't listen to the whole thing either.

[shatteringglass619]

great man. we would be wise to heed his words, but wisdom is not convenient, so we rot and our kingdom crumbles.