'If Dr. King were alive today, he would despair at the state of our foreign and domestic policies.' MLKday
against the Vietnam War, delivered at New York's Riverside Church a year to the day before he was assassinated.King began his speech by attempting to preempt the arguments of critics who claimed that he had no business wading into the debate over the war, asserting, in King's words, that"peace and civil rights don't mix." The criticisms came anyway.
"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." He saw the temptation to intervene as being grounded in systemic flaws in the American system, which he described as the"giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism." He stated that beyond Vietnam,"we will be marching for these and a dozen other names [of potential war zones] and attending rallies without end, unless there is a significant and profound change in American life and policy.
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