As we all know, Neal, before he died, Robert McNamara, the Defense secretary that had Walt and others over in Vietnam, before he died, of course, announced that he was wrong. 16, 1967 in New York. P: (650) 723-2092 | F: (650) 723-2093 | kinginstitute@stanford.edu| Campus Map. 0000001616 00000 n Even before the French were defeated at Dien Bien Phu, they began to despair of the reckless action, but we did not. The Institute cannot give permission to use or reproduce any of the writings, statements, or images of Martin Luther King, Jr. And that's just the Times and the Post. The peasants watched and cringed as Diem ruthlessly routed out all opposition, supported their extortionist landlords and refused even to discuss reunification with the north. Martin Luther King: Beyond Vietnam and Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution, 90th Cong., 2d sess., Congressional Record 114 (9 April 1968): 93919397. During the last year of his life, King worked with Spock to develop Vietnam Summer, a volunteer project to increase grassroots peace activism in time for the 1968 elections. Beyond the calling of race or nation or creed is this vocation of sonship and brotherhood, and because I believe that the Father is deeply concerned especially for his suffering and helpless and outcast children, I come tonight to speak for them. King to Weigh Civil Disobedience). or 404 526-8968. Dr. We must speak for them and raise the questions they cannot raise. What must they think of us in America when they realize that we permitted the repression and cruelty of Diem which helped to bring them into being as a resistance group in the south? For it occurs to me that what we are submitting them to in Vietnam is not simply the brutalizing process that goes on in any war where armies face each other and seek to destroy. 0000004855 00000 n The United States got involved in the Vietnam War because they wanted to stop the spread of communism. He gave a famous speech about the fact that he - when stabbed in New York at a book signing, the blade was just a scintilla away from his aorta. CONAN: Indeed. During the past ten years we have seen emerge a pattern of suppression which now has justified the presence of U.S. military advisors in Venezuela. 0000007161 00000 n Ken Rudin joins guest host Rebecca Roberts. King linked his anti-war and civil rights work in speeches throughout the country, where he described the three problems he saw plaguing the nation: racism, poverty, and the war in Vietnam. Sorry, I'm a little bit emotional here. Carson and Shepard, 2001. Meanwhile we in the churches and synagogues have a continuing task while we urge our government to disengage itself from a disgraceful commitment. (1997). They move sadly and apathetically as we herd them off the land of their fathers into concentration camps where minimal social needs are rarely met. Tomorrow, the latest installment with the political junkie. Beyond Vietnam A Time To Break Silence Rhetorical Precis What must they be thinking when they know that we are aware of their control of major sections of Vietnam and yet we appear ready to allow national elections in which this highly organized political parallel government will have no part? He is best known for helping achieve civil equality for African Americans, but these speeches--selected because they were each presented at a turning point in the . The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, for example, issued a statement against merging the civil rights and peace movements. We have supported the enemies of the peasants of Saigon. So even McNamara eventually comes around to that point. Rev. 5. People And Peace Not Profits And War Rhetorical Devices Before long they must know that their government has sent them into a struggle among Vietnamese, and the more sophisticated surely realize that we are on the side of the wealthy and the secure while we create hell for the poor. It makes for an excellent teaching tool for a unit on the Civil Rights Movement, Cold War and Vietnam, or as a bridge to combine the two! Over the past two years, as I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart, as I have called for radical departures from the destruction of Vietnam, many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my path. The initiative to stop it must be ours. He did say he was going to increase troop levels in Afghanistan, so he's kept that promise. Even though they quoted the American Declaration of Independence in their own document of freedom, we refused to recognize them. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: "This is not just. $25.00. Freedom's Ring: King's "I Have a Dream" Speech, Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution, Martin Luther King, Jr. - Political and Social Views, Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam (CALCAV). Excuse me. April 30, 1967: "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam" Speech Now they languish under our bombs and consider us not their fellow Vietnamese the real enemy. Peace and civil rights dont mix, they say. He rarely gave speeches from a text. Hanoi remembers how our leaders refused to tell us the truth about the earlier North Vietnamese overtures for peace, how the president claimed that none existed when they had clearly been made. Finally, as I try to delineate for you and for myself the road that leads from Montgomery to this place I would have offered all that was most valid if I simply said that I must be true to my conviction that I share with all men the calling to be a son of the living God. On April 4, 1967 Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a speech named, "Beyond Vietnam- A Time to Break Silence" addressing the Vietnam War. Those pictures turned Dr. King's stomach. Martin Luther King, who was already beginning to lose some of his influence, nevertheless made a huge challenge to the establishment. In the 1950s and 1960s, his words led the Civil Rights Movement and helped change society. And so I think most Americans, Neal, know the "I Have A Dream" speech. 4 Powerful Martin Luther King, Jr. Speeches That Aren't 'I Have A Dream' Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: Too late. There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect. HdTn0+=3hRnm)zK#-t\|Ha)S 0000006536 00000 n So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such. "[8] He connected the war with economic injustice, arguing that the country needed serious moral change: A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. Martin Luther King Jr - n/a - Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King CONAN: And I think a lot of people will see your parallels regarding Iraq, where, indeed, the United States was the aggressor in that conflict. A few years ago there was a shining moment in that. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. Perhaps only his sense of humor and of irony can save him when he hears the most powerful nation of the world speaking of aggression as it drops thousands of bombs on a poor weak nation more than eight thousand miles away from its shores. And that is precisely what concerned Dr. King so much, that these young boys were being sent halfway around the world to fight a war that was unwinnable, that resources were being used there that should've been used here at home. His speech appears below. Full text of speech. They must see Americans as strange liberators. That's my own personal assessment. King, Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution, in A Knock at Midnight, ed. It was the speech he labored over the most. This Hindu-Moslem-Christian-Jewish-Buddhist belief about ultimate reality is beautifully summed up in the first epistle of Saint John: Let us love one another; for love is God and everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. These are revolutionary times. They will be concerned about Thailand and Cambodia. Before he was assassinated at age 39, the Rev. And King had preached at this church any number of times before, of course. In 1957 when a group of us formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, we chose as our motto: To save the soul of America. We were convinced that we could not limit our vision to certain rights for black people, but instead affirmed the conviction that America would never be free or saved from itself unless the descendants of its slaves were loosed completely from the shackles they still wear. And they, as news crews tend to do, they stayed to get just enough B-roll, as we call it Mr. SMILEY: for the news that night. Cypress Hall D, 466 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305-4146 I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. And that's the issue that King was raising. We must be prepared to match actions with words by seeking out every creative means of protest possible. Mr. SMILEY: And therein lies the rub. Q%F70%iR! CONAN: Oh, the audio is terrible, though. The truth of these words is beyond doubt but the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one. A Comparative Study of Martin Luther King Jr & Malcolm X. by. Soon the only solid physical foundations remaining will be found at our military bases and in the concrete of the concentration camps we call fortified hamlets. [26], The same year, King nominated Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize, but the prize was not awarded to anyone that year. We have cooperated in the crushing of the nations only non-Communist revolutionary political force the unified Buddhist church. It was written by activist and historian Vincent Harding. [28], A portion of this speech is used in the track "Wisdom, Justice, and Love" by Linkin Park, from their 2010 album A Thousand Suns. If Dr. King were to say to the organizers of these events, I'd like to show up at your church on Sunday morning, at your rally this weekend, and here's what I want to say, there is a good argument to be made that Dr. King himself might not be welcome - might not be allowed to say what was in his heart, what his conscience really was, given the political correctness of the world that we live in today. PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley's new documentary, MLK: A Call to Conscience explores King's speech. But two, to the audio, there are only less than 10 minutes of this speech that got covered. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968) In 1967, in the shadows of Columbia, Dr. King shifted the world again. That's the problem with it. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Zinn Education Project PDF. We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. For those who ask the question, Arent you a civil rights leader? and thereby mean to exclude me from the movement for peace, I have this further answer. Of course, he's assassinated in Memphis a year to the day later after giving this speech. But they chose Riverside because King was going to be speaking some days later at a huge rally and march in New York City, and they knew that that rally was going to bring out a different kind of element, a more controversial element. ml.K-x1x*tcSO p[ endstream endobj 62 0 obj 720 endobj 63 0 obj << /Filter /FlateDecode /Length 62 0 R >> stream Tonight, however, I wish not to speak with Hanoi and the NLF, but rather to my fellow Americans, who, with me, bear the greatest responsibility in ending a conflict that has exacted a heavy price on both continents. It is not addressed to China or to Russia. His tireless work advocating for the end of. Of course, again, that philosophy, when the papers got a hold of him the next day, that strategy didn't work so well. [6], King delivered the speech, sponsored by the group Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, after committing to participate in New York's April 15, 1967 anti-Vietnam war march from Central Park to the United Nations, sponsored by the Spring Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. 0000013330 00000 n So they go primarily women and children and the aged. 39 0 obj << /Linearized 1 /O 44 /H [ 1739 286 ] /L 149455 /E 105346 /N 8 /T 148557 >> endobj xref 39 54 0000000016 00000 n With that tragic decision we rejected a revolutionary government seeking self-determination, and a government that had been established not by China (for whom the Vietnamese have no great love) but by clearly indigenous forces that included some Communists. The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. Part of our ongoing commitment might well express itself in an offer to grant asylum to any Vietnamese who fears for his life under a new regime which included the Liberation Front. But instead there came the United States, determined that Ho should not unify the temporarily divided nation, and the peasants watched again as we supported one of the most vicious modern dictators our chosen man, Premier Diem. Watch a newsfilm clip of the speech . hide caption. Shall we say the odds are too great? He knows the bombing and shelling and mining we are doing are part of traditional pre-invasion strategy. Grossfield, Stan. In Hanoi are the men who led the nation to independence against the Japanese and the French, the men who sought membership in the French commonwealth and were betrayed by the weakness of Paris and the willfulness of the colonial armies. n the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on lifes roadside; but that will be only an initial act. [27] Thich Nhat Hanh, who publicly held a news conference in Chicago with King in 1966, was acknowledged for urging King to oppose the Vietnam War. The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit, and if we ignore this sobering reality we will find ourselves organizing clergy- and laymen-concerned committees for the next generation. Life magazine called the speech "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi",[9] and The Washington Post declared that King had "diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people. In "People and Peace, not Profits and War," Shirley Chisholm repeats the words "two more years" (42). Because he received a letter from a little white girl who said, Dr. King, I read the newspaper that had you sneezed that blade would've moved, ruptured your aorta and you would've drowned in your own blood. And they are surely right to wonder what kind of new government we plan to help form without them the only party in real touch with the peasants. We encouraged them with our huge financial and military supplies to continue the war even after they had lost the will. Martin Luther King's Speech Against the Vietnam War by David Bromwich May 16, 2008 O ne of the greatest speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., "A Time to Break Silence," was delivered at Riverside Church, New York City, on April 4, 1967. Du Bois to Coretta Scott King: The Untold History of the Movement to Ban the Bomb. I guess the question now is whether or not Afghanistan is a war of necessity or a war of choice. There is nothing to keep us from molding a recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into a brotherhood. So far we may have killed a million of them mostly children. BlackPast.org is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and our EIN is 26-1625373. [19][20], In a 1952 letter to Coretta Scott, he said: "I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic"[21] In one speech, he stated that "something is wrong with capitalism" and claimed, "There must be a better distribution of wealth, and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism. Declare a unilateral cease-fire in the hope that such action will create the atmosphere for negotiation. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King at Ebenezer Church. CONAN: Indeed, it was Oslo. Have they forgotten that my ministry is in obedience to the one who loved his enemies so fully that he died for them? "[14] In a way we were agreeing with Langston Hughes, that black bard of Harlem, who had written earlier: O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath America will be! Surely we must see that our own computerized plans of destruction simply dwarf their greatest acts. [citation needed]. And I believe everyone has a duty to be in both the civil-rights and peace movements. There is.a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I and others have been waging in America. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poorboth black . A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. Martin Luther King Jr. - Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam Vietnam War - The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute When he saw those pictures, there's a very famous picture, Neal, that we all know of a Vietnamese girl running naked in the streets who had just been, you know, had been victimized as had her village by these napalm attacks. 0000030467 00000 n In the light of such tragic misunderstandings, I deem it of signal importance to try to state clearly, and I trust concisely, why I believe that the path from Dexter Avenue Baptist Church the church in Montgomery, Alabama, where I began my pastorate leads clearly to this sanctuary tonight. He was stabbed at one time. JwNt YHiA:{p . That's what set so many of them off. I Have a Dream, speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., that was delivered on August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington. So 60 year(ph) is really, really a hot year here around this particular issue. In December 1966, testifying before a congressional subcommittee on budget priorities, King argued for a rebalancing of fiscal priorities away from Americas obsession with Vietnam and toward greater support for anti-poverty programs at home (Semple, Dr. 0000012562 00000 n (1947) Moranda Smith Addresses The Congress Of Industrial Organizations Annual Convention, Boston, (1974) Congresswoman Barbara Jordans Statement: The Richard Nixon Impeachment Hearings, African American History: Research Guides & Websites, Global African History: Research Guides & Websites, African American Scientists and Technicians of the Manhattan Project, Envoys, Diplomatic Ministers, & Ambassadors, http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/058.html, Foundation, Organization, and Corporate Supporters. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. BRC-NEWS: Black Radical Congress International News/Alerts/Announcements , Martin Luther King, Jr., delivering speech. 0000044282 00000 n The image of America will never again be the image of revolution, freedom and democracy, but the image of violence and militarism.. But for those who presently choose but one, I would hope they will finally come to see the moral roots common to both. Moreover when the issues at hand seem as perplexed as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must move on. CONAN: Well, take us back to 1967. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate. WALT (Caller): Yes. Mr. SMILEY: That's right. Let me say this right quick: The comparisons between what King was addressing then about militarism, poverty and racism sound familiar 45 years later. Mr. SMILEY: Neal, thank you for the opportunity. King delivered the speech, sponsored by the group Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, after committing to participate in New York's April 15, 1967 anti-Vietnam war march from Central Park to the United Nations, sponsored by the Spring Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. 800-989-8255. Howard's calling us from South Bend. Instead, we decided to support France in its reconquest of her former colony. The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit, and if we ignore this sobering reality we will find ourselves organizing clergy- and laymen . We will be marching for these and a dozen other names and attending rallies without end unless there is a significant and profound change in American life and policy. As we counsel young men concerning military service we must clarify for them our nations role in Vietnam and challenge them with the alternative of conscientious objection. King delivered a speech entitled Beyond Vietnam, pointing out that the war effort was taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem (King, Beyond Vietnam, 143). Kings opposition to the war provoked criticism from members of Congress, the press, and from his civil rights colleagues who argued that expanding his civil rights message to include foreign affairs would harm the black freedom struggle in America. In Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vietnam speech, lines 413-416, he repeats the phrase "this is not just" (161). So Martin's advisors basically said, if you are intent on giving the speech, at least allow us to craft a speech and to create a setting that will allow you to speak to clergy members and laity so at least before you get to this rally that we know is going to be controversial, we could at least roll this thing out with a different kind of a crowd. Less than two weeks after leading his first Vietnam demonstration, on 4 April 1967, King made his best known and most comprehensive statement against the war. A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. 0000009985 00000 n Why are you joining the voices of dissent? 0000005717 00000 n 0000002337 00000 n Martin Luther King, Jr. - Challenges of the final years | Britannica There is nothing, except a tragic death wish, to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. This is TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News in Washington. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within ones own bosom and in the surrounding world. On April 4, 1967 Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a speech named, "Beyond Vietnam- A Time to Break Silence" addressing the Vietnam War. But most Americans, I think, do not know this speech, "Beyond Vietnam.". I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. At the heart of their concerns this query has often loomed large and loud: Why are you speaking about war, Dr. King? This speech was written and basically read word for word so that they could have a copy to give to mainstream newspapers across the country for their consideration, because King did not want to be misquoted Mr. SMILEY: or misunderstood, although that didn't work. And thank you for sharing what had to be a difficult story to tell. On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King gave his first major public address on the war in Vietnam at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City. His wife, Coretta Scott King, took a more active role in opposing the war, speaking at a rally at the Washington Monument on 27 November 1965 with Benjamin Spock, the renowned pediatrician and anti-war activist, and joined in other demonstrations. Screenshots are considered by the King Estate a violation of this notice. 0000007566 00000 n The Riverside Church donated largely with Rockefeller money. So it was a great turnout. Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism. The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light. We in the West must support these revolutions. A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. This I believe to be the privilege and the burden of all of us who deem ourselves bound by allegiances and loyalties which are broader and deeper than nationalism and which go beyond our nations self-defined goals and positions. Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305. Seeking to reduce the potential backlash by framing his speech within the context of religious objection to war, King addressed a crowd of 3,000 people at Riverside Church in New York City. And the last poll taken in his life by Harris, the Harris Poll, Neal, found that nearly three quarters of the American people, nearly three quarters, had turned against Martin on this issue, and 55 percent of his own people, black folk, had turned against him. Because, to your point now, one, I want people to go online and read the speech so you can see the text for yourself. Email us: talk@npr.org. 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So we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools.