Martin Luther King - Beyond Vietnam - 1967 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Volume 90% 00:00 51:49 Martin Luther King - Beyond Vietnam - 1967 Topics Martin Luther King, Beyond Vietnam, war, social justice, peace * Reverend Martin Luther King * Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence * April 4, 1967 * I heard him speak so many times. #6 Low Expenses. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words of April 4, 1967, now known as the "Beyond Vietnam" speech are such words. ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( a@" c Number two: Declare a unilateral cease-fire in the hope that such action will create the atmosphere for negotiation. Martin Luther King, Jr. - "Beyond Vietnam" - April 4, 1967 Open Document. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. We have destroyed their land and their crops. A year to the day before his assassination, Martin Luther King publicly and decisively denounced not only the US war in Vietnam but the militarism that enabled the war and undermined American society. King, Statement on voter registration in Alabama, 9 March 1965, MLKJP-GAMK. Beyond Vietnam: The MLK speech that caused an uproar - USA TODAY Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. - April 4, 1967 - Beyond Vietnam: A Time JFIF C Even though they quoted the American Declaration of Independence in their own document of freedom, we refused to recognize them. Communism will never be defeated by the use of atomic bombs or nuclear weapons. On 4 April, accompanied by Amherst College Professor Henry Commager, Union Theological Seminary President John Bennett, and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, at an event sponsored by Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam, King spoke to over 3,000 at New Yorks Riverside Church. 'I Have a Dream'. What are the economic reasons that saw the USA getting involved in the PBS talk show host Tavis. Recently one of them wrote these words, and I quote: Each day the war goes on the hatred increases in the heart of the Vietnamese and in the hearts of those of humanitarian instinct. The church maintains an active social justice mission today. Can I threaten them with death or must I not share with them my life? I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. Soon we would be paying almost the full costs of this tragic attempt at recolonization. Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence - Wikipedia 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. Surely we must understand their feelings, even if we do not condone their actions. The essence of the speech focused on the war in Vietnam. Dr. King's purpose is to make the church leaders he is speaking to aware that 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 Institute cannot give permission to use or reproduce any of the writings, statements, or images of Martin Luther King, Jr. King's Vietnam speech still holds true 50 years later The truth of these words is beyond doubt, but the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one. stream At the time, civil rights leaders publicly condemned him for it. Introduction Martin Luther King, Jr in his speech "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" argued that US foreign policy was hypocritical when compared to the inequality present in the United States. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight. King holds the U.S. government and the American people responsible for the Vietnam . Tonight, however, I wish not to speak with Hanoi and the National Liberation Front, but rather to my fellow Americans. Zip. . 55 0 obj Dr King Beyond Vietnam A Time To Break Silence Essay On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King delivered his first major public statement against the Vietnam War, entitled "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence." Addressing a crowd of 3,000 at Riverside Church in New York City, King condemned the war as anti-democratic, impractical, and unjust. Vincent Harding and his first wife, Rosemarie, were friends and colleagues of Martin and Coretta King in the Southern Freedom Movement, directing an interracial voluntary service unit of the Mennonite Church (Mennonite House) in . 3. stop the creation of battlefield in Laos and Thailand. We must stop now. The shirtless and barefoot people of the land are rising up as never before. Not only were they fighting for their own rights in 1976, but they were sending away the son, husbands, brothers of other Americans thousands of miles away to the country of Vietnam to fight an unjust war for the rights of the people in Southeast Asia. Martin Luther King Jr., "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam" Why Is the US Deporting Protected Vietnamese Immigrants? In the light of such tragic misunderstanding, 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. I also want to say that I consider it a great honor to share this program with Dr. Bennett, Dr. Commager, and Rabbi Heschel, and some of the distinguished leaders and personalities of our nation. And we must rejoice as well, for surely this is the first time in our nations history that a significant number of its religious leaders have chosen to move beyond the prophesying of smooth patriotism to the high grounds of a firm dissent based upon the mandates of conscience and the reading of history. They will be concerned about Mozambique and South Africa. This has driven many to feel that only Marxism has a revolutionary spirit. After more than a decade in the public eye fighting racism and inequality in America, King plunged himself into another searing, divisive issue in America with his speech, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, given at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967. When Diem was overthrown they may have been happy, but the long line of military dictators seemed to offer no real change, especially in terms of their need for land and peace. 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? 53 0 obj So far we may have killed a million of them, mostly children. 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. #7 Infrastructure Development. So it is that those of us who are yet determined that America will be are are led down the path of protest and dissent, working for the health of our land. In its April 7 editorial "Dr. King's Error," The New York Times lambasted King for fusing two problems that are "distinct and separate.". Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence was actually a collaborative work largely written by a close associate and friend of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Vincent Harding. During this time period there was a lot of controversy surrounding the war. And every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. Beyond Vietnam (or Time to End the Silence) . 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. Decent Essays. Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live. One of Martin Luther King Jr.'s lesser known yet equally impactful speeches, "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence," condemns the violence and atrocities committed by the U.S against the Vietnamese in their foolish bid to stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia. These are the times for real choices and not false ones. And when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling. Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence Jim Meyer 2020, Beyond Vietnam:A Time to Break Silence Abstract "The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. 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. While they both may have justifiable reasons to be suspicious of the good faith of the United States, life and history give eloquent testimony to the fact that conflicts are never . Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemys point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. He disagreed with America going to war in Vietnam in 1955 and to voice his thoughts he wrote and delivered his speech "Beyond Vietnam- A Time to Break Silence." which took place at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967 to let his audience know that the Vietnam War is unjust. The speech titled "Beyond Vietnam" is relevant to today's war in Ukraine. #2 Young, Skilled Population. San Francisco: Canfield Press, 1971. 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. The neo-gothic Riverside Church in New York City has a long history of progressive leaders and activism, dating back to its opening in October, 1930. xcbd`g`b``8 "Y& D2 IF>E0y6DrLb`] R3XM-c |)f&!ME 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. % This kind of positive revolution of values is our best defense against communism. It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch antirevolutionaries. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today my own government. In 1957, a sensitive American official overseas said that it seemed to him that our nation was on the wrong side of a world revolution. English "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence", also referred as Riverside Church speech, is an anti-Vietnam war and pro- social justice speech delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1967. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. Martin Luther King, Jr.facts and information - Culture A Tragedy,Washington Post, 6 April 1967. They watch as we poison their water, as we kill a million acres of their crops. Rhetorical Devices In Beyond Vietnam Speech | ipl.org !S4@'rS[c5TcZ,Ay -\t[ mMIf$s958! aoOyeV_5i#>Z:ShY| x_5i,e*q}iaI$r99SE^gBvDO9 U{-gp=95TF*v*:[lrS;Gqk$>T.mO-+[hGoW sTr".[Z>?n{ 6(|oZQ{=+KND|=OU,QW_#n^iya46/u2H-j= #5 Free Trade Agreements. The immediate response to Kings speech was largely negative. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor both black and white through the poverty program. Equally unclear is why Vietnam decided to begin accepting deportees who arrived in the United States prior to 1995. I need not pause to say how very delighted I am to be here tonight, and how very delighted I am to see you expressing your concern about the issues that will be discussed tonight by turning out in such large numbers. 1968: A Year of Turmoil and Change | National Archives
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