Many people believed that America had no reason to interfere, Dr. King being one of those people. I heard him speak so many times. 56 0 obj I say it plain, Though the cause of evil prosper, yet tis truth alone is strong King, Martin Luther Jr. "Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam." In Editors of Ramparts with Banning Garrett and Katherine Barkley (Eds.) 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. It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of South America and say, This is not just. The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. Tragically, half a century after "Beyond Vietnam," America is still the greatest purveyor of violence in the world, and the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism . Freedom is still the bonus we receive for knowing the truth. Since I am a preacher by calling, I suppose it is not surprising that I have seven major reasons for bringing Vietnam into the field of my moral vision. We have cooperated in the crushing in the crushing of the nations only non-Communist revolutionary political force, the unified Buddhist Church. Part of our ongoing 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. This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. My third reason moves to an even deeper level of awareness, for it grows out of my experience in the ghettoes of the North over the last three years especially the last three summers. Let us not join those who shout war and, through their misguided passions, urge the United States to relinquish its participation in the United Nations. We must provide the medical aid that is badly needed, making it available in this country, if necessary. Over the last eight years, I have had the privilege of preaching here almost every year in that period, and it is always a rich and rewarding experience to come to this great church and this great pulpit. 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In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Now, it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war. Four: Realistically accept the fact that the National Liberation Front has substantial support in South Vietnam and must thereby play a role in any meaningful negotiations and any future Vietnam government. Please contact Intellectual Properties Management (IPM), the exclusive licensor of the Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. atlicensing@i-p-m.comor 404 526-8968. Excerpts from "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" Delivered at Riverside Church, New York, April 4, 1967 Since I am a preacher by trade, I suppose it is not surprising that I have seven major reasons for bringing Vietnam into the field of my moral vision. The first reason "obvious" and "facile," according to King was the effect of the Vietnam War on the War on Poverty in the United States. A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. If we continue, there will be no doubt in my mind and in the mind of the world that we have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. by Rick Sterling January 16, 2023. They wander into the towns and see thousands of the children, homeless, without clothes, running in packs on the streets like animals. And history is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate. . America will be! stream 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. Beyond Vietnam Ethos Pathos Logos. The essence of the speech focused on the war in Vietnam. Helping you get here is part of her job. 1. stop all bombing in Vietnam. At this point I should make it clear that while I have tried in these last few minutes to give a voice to the voiceless in Vietnam and to understand the arguments of those who are called enemy, I am as deeply concerned about our own troops there as anything else. They must weep as the bulldozers roar through their areas preparing to destroy the precious trees. It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population. For nine years following 1945 we denied the people of Vietnam the right of independence. Some great cause, Gods new Messiah offering each the bloom or blight, And so, such thoughts take us beyond Vietnam, but not beyond our calling as sons of the living God. To speak for them is to explain this lack of confidence in Western words, and especially their distrust of American intentions now. Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence " Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence ", also referred as the Riverside Church speech, [1] is an anti-Vietnam War and pro- social justice speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1967, exactly one year before he was assassinated. Number two: Declare a unilateral cease-fire in the hope that such action will create the atmosphere for negotiation. Then came the buildup in Vietnam, and I watched this program broken and eviscerated, as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and 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. A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, This way of settling differences is not just. This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nations homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. 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. Martin Luther King Jr. gave many speeches in his lifetime. The church maintains an active social justice mission today. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. baseball font with tail generator King, " Beyond Vietnam, " 4 April 1967, NNRC. King, Interview on Face the Nation, 29 August 1965, RRML-TxTyU. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery. stream MLK: Beyond Vietnam - A Time to Break Silence The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change 251K views 7 years ago William Pepper - The Execution of Martin Luther King. Soon we would be paying almost the full costs of this tragic attempt at recolonization. MLK: Beyond Vietnam to Ukraine. If we will make the right choice, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our world into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. These are days which demand wise restraint and calm reasonableness. King, Transformed Nonconformist, Sermon Delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 16 January 1966, CSKC. After the French were defeated, it looked as if independence and land reform would come again through the Geneva Agreement. The shirtless and barefoot people of the land are rising up as never before. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. It was they who led a second struggle against French domination at tremendous costs, and then were persuaded to give up the land they controlled between the thirteenth and seventeenth parallel as a temporary measure at Geneva. Martin Luther King uses persuasive argument in his speeches. For the peasants this new government meant real land reform, one of the most important needs in their lives. 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 hundred rather, eight thousand miles away from its shores. stream both may have justifiable reason to be suspicious of the good faith of the United States, life and history give eloquent testimony to the fact that conflicts are never resolved without trustful give and take on both sides. And as I ponder the madness of Vietnam and search within myself for ways to understand and respond in compassion, my mind goes constantly to the people of that peninsula. Soon, the only solid solid physical foundations remaining will be found at our military bases and in the concrete of the concentration camps we call fortified hamlets. The peasants may well wonder if we plan to build our new Vietnam on such grounds as these. 4. give the NLF a say in negotiations. Surely we must see that the men we supported pressed them to their violence. It was used in journalism as a euphemism for recognized lies told to the public by . I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. How can they believe in our integrity when now we speak of aggression from the North as if there were nothing more essential to the war?
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