Martin Luther King A Time to Break Silence part - 3

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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[Meloman0001]

history has a tendency of repeating itself, when a nation doesn't learn from its past.

[nonconservative]

Thanks for sharing this. LOVE & PEACE

[MatttthewF]

Check out the new MLK song "FULL JUSTICE" on Youtube. Get ready to be inspired. Watch it now!!

[72yaque]

Does anybody know if the quote "in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends" came from this speech?

[72yaque]

Does anybody know if the quote "in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends" came from this speech?

[clarkygorny]

The power of his words.. All you have to do is replace Vietnam with "war on terror" and it would sum up our current situation. The time to break the silence is now. Obama is getting us more and more involved in an endless nation building genocide, He claimed as candidate the first thing he would do was bring our troops home. He ran on false slogans and misleading propaganda. Obama has betrayed us we must demand him to end the war, instead of giving us excuses. We have to take our country back.

[amd77j]

The past is prologue.

[ChrisDutch]

Again, as I said in a previous post this is what all of us should do. Print the speech out, cross out Vietnam and substitute Iraq and Afghanistan and there's no reason to listen to another policy statement from Washington about the Middle east. King's greatest gift was his ability not to look left or right but to look forward.

[imaginepeace63]

I love ths speech but I did not realize it was so long.

[jprice2654]

One of his greatest speeches. Some of his deepest analysis of the evil in American foreign policy. Bless you for posting this.

[AfroPlato]

Utterly masterful prose, man.

[shurednichso]

That will change nothing. And if you think so, you are the dumb racist here. American governments act for the interests of lobbys - not for the interests of the american or any other people.

See that or be a sheep.