Wednesday, January 21, 2009

A Time to Break Silence

By Rev. Martin Luther King

See and read this historic speech,

which is still very relevant today!

In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered -- King called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

Time magazine called the speech "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi," and the Washington Post declared that King had "diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people."

History proved Martin Luther King was spot on . . . . while the media icons were wrong!

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