Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on Vietnam War

[Octafish]

"...Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor of America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours..."

SOURCE:

Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence

By Rev. Martin Luther King
4 April 1967

Speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/058.html

Beck and his money-mad, power-grabbing, warmongering, treasonous backers couldn't be further from the truth about Dr. King.

Without honest news media, unfortunately, America may never wake up.

[AspenRose]

1. Exactly right

The disconnect is astonishing. How they could embrace King when he was so staunchly anti-war is beyond me. And the typical right wing idiot is too lazy to research beyond their memorized Fox News talking points, who keep this convenient little fact hidden.

[EFerrari]

2. Their mentality is to turn towards the nearest authority figure

no matter how toxic that panders to their ignorance and fear, like some kind of diseased sunflower.

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[jotsy]

4. War is capable of nothing but loss.

On every level imaginable.

Rec'd.

[AspenRose]

5. What a great link

I bookmarked it.