MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break SilenceĪll labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. I'm 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.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., 'Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Searing Antiwar Speech, Fifty Years Later', The New Yorker, April 3, 2017 It's not on the one hand or on the other hand. The Vietnam War is either morally right or morally wrong. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., 'I Have a Dream' speech, August 28, 1963 No, no, we are not satisfied and will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream. Fiery, demagogic oratory in the black ghettos, urging Negroes to arm themselves and prepare to engage in violence, as he has done, can reap nothing but grief.

And in his litany of articulating the despair of the Negro without offering any positive, creative alternative, I feel that Malcolm has done himself and our people a great disservice. I don't know how he feels now, but I know that I have often wished that he would talk less of violence, because violence is not going to solve our problem. I don't want to seem to sound self-righteous, or absolutist, or that I think I have the only truth, the only way. but I totally disagree with many of his political and philosophical views at least insofar as I understand where he now stands.

I met Malcolm X once in Washington, but circumstances didn't enable me to talk with him for more than a minute. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., sermon delivered at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, Feb.

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