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Few members of the oppressor race can understand the deep groans and passionate yearnings of the oppressed race, and still fewer have the vision to see that injustice must be rooted out by strong, persistent and determined action. Too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained glass windows.


It is a lack of imagination that accepts a future of endless war. It is fear of the other that fuels fundamentalism.

Jesus said: "FEAR NOT! You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free."

Rev. King wondered if organized religion was too inextricably bound to the status quo to save our nation and the world. He knew that "Any nation that year after year continues to raise the Defense budget while cutting social programs to the neediest is a nation approaching spiritual death."

While he lived the FBI placed wiretaps on Reverend King's home and office phones and bugged his hotel rooms throughout the country. By 1967, King had become the country's most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's RiversideChurch 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."


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