Forty years ago this April, Martin Luther King mounted the pulpit of Riverside Church in New York City to deliver his famous speech against the Vietnam War.
Dr. King and other religious leaders at an anti-war vigil
at Arlington National Cemetery, 1968.
Though he had always been opposed to the war because of his philosophy of nonviolence, he had up to that moment left public comment to his wife, Coretta Scott King, so as to devote his entire efforts to the struggle for civil rights.
In the spring of 1967, he agreed to address a meeting of a large and diverse antiwar group, Clergy and Laity Concerned, and did so on April 17th.
The complete text of that speech -- and an audio file -- can be found here.
Everything Martin said about Vietnam can be thought of again today in the context of Iraq.
Wars are poor chisels
for carving out
peaceful tomorrows.-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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