MLK: Beyond Vietnam

The irony here is that after Martin Luther King gave this speech he became an outcast, even in the "Liberal" community. He had stepped out of the domain of acceptable social criticism of civil rights talk, and into the the dangerous domain of the fundamental value of redemptive violence, our deepest faith in War as the ultimate solution.

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"A true revolution of values will lay hands 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 nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."