Martin Luther King A Time to Break Silence part - 1

By 1967, King had become the country's most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered -- King called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

Time magazine called the speech "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi," and the Washington Post declared that King had "diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people.

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[iSimonPro]

This speech is a part of a Linkin Park Song!

Thumbs up for Martin Luther King and LP

[Isambay]

Very prophetic speech.

[yrral01]

freedom for blacks ok.  freedom for vietnamese is not ok. US troops protecting blacks in U.S ok. U.S. protecting vietnamese is not.

[clarkygorny]

@ndavis93 It has nothing to do with opinion. He said the first thing he would do when he became president was end the war not bring some troops home 4 years later. I dont know if you are keeping count but we are currently bombing 6 countries atm, before Obama it was 4. So even if he did end the wars in those countries completely. Our foreign policy is what creates a threat to us in the first place, its time to bring about peace with peace not some distant time in the future but now.

[ndavis93]

@clarkygorny While we are all entitled to our opinions I feel you are incorrect in your statements because Obama, as promised has began to pull troops out of afghanistan and as of December 31st all U.S troops will be out of afghanistan....

[JDMarine89]

I am taking a philosophy class and am now realizing the genius if this man. How he thinks and constructs deductive arguments at many times of the top of his head and how he used it to strike at the conscious of a nation and the world. He lives on in all of us even if you don't realize it.

[RamboSlice666]

@zzahier Not the full speech....the uploader left off the first 2 minutes

[matthewdelacruz15]

i'm wasn't born in his time but i deeply respect him. RIP Matrin Luther King.

[iampatuky]

noooooooooooooooooo mamessssss que pinches palabras tan chingonas!!!!!

[david320able]

i'm vietnamese