Martin Luther King Speaks Out Against War
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts), Videos on January 15th, 2007 5:51 pm by HL
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Martin Luther King: �A Society Gone Mad on War�
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When Martin Luther King spoke out against the Vietnam War, he angered those who couldn�t see the connection between segregation in the American South and burning villages in Southeast Asia. King responded sagely (from �Beyond Vietnam”):
There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have been waging in America. 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 the 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. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such….\
Listen to Martin Luther King explain his opposition to the war:
Code Pink’s tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.:
