martin luther king jr vietnam war speech transcript

[26], The same year, King nominated Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize, but the prize was not awarded to anyone that year. [citation needed]. So you got a Nobel laureate named King, a war president with a Nobel Prize named Obama, for all that we have done over the last two years to wed King and Obama together on T- shirts and everywhere else, were King alive today at 81, he and Obama would have a tension point, Neal, on this issue. This has driven many to feel that only Marxism has the revolutionary spirit. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity. Copyright 2010 NPR. They will be concerned about Thailand and Cambodia. On April 15, 1967, King participated and spoke at an anti-war march from Manhattan's Central Park to the United Nations. But instead there came the United States, determined that Ho should not unify the temporarily divided nation, and the peasants watched again as we supported one of the most vicious modern dictators our chosen man, Premier Diem. Dr. 0000004834 00000 n That's the problem with it. Keep in mind now that 1967, Neal, as you know, is the same year that Muhammad Ali, the world champion, decides to not accept that draft to go and fight in Vietnam. Cypress Hall D, 466 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305-4146 I Have a Dream, speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., that was delivered on August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington. I feel that Martin Luther King and Muhammad Ali are two of the, you know, greatest Americans we've ever had. But they didn't stay for the speech in its entirety. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, organized the 1963 March on Washington, advocated for civil disobedience and. Mr. SMILEY: Indeed he did, Neal. Smiley spoke with both scholars and friends of King, including Cornel West, Vincent Harding and Susannah Heschel. You can also join the conversation at our Web site. On April 4, 1967 Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a speech named, "Beyond Vietnam- A Time to Break Silence" addressing the Vietnam War. Twin towers were planned from Afghanistan. His house was bombed. So it is that those of us who are yet determined that America will be are led down the path of protest and dissent, working for the health of our land. Some civil rights leaders urged King not to speak out on the Vietnam War, but he said he could not separate issues of economic injustice, racism, war, and militarism. The peasants watched as all this was presided over by U.S. influence and then by increasing numbers of U.S. troops who came to help quell the insurgency that Diems methods had aroused. Soon the only solid physical foundations remaining will be found at our military bases and in the concrete of the concentration camps we call fortified hamlets. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: Too late. There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect. Mr. SMILEY: And therein lies the rub. *];\n~~/iQ|h Q MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.: I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. Or will there be another message, of longing, of hope, of solidarity with their yearnings, of commitment to their cause, whatever the cost? 0000002025 00000 n 0000011437 00000 n 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. President Obama, this is one campaign promise that he has kept. In so many words, powerful interests told him: "Mind your own business.". King Leads Chicago). He did say he was going to increase troop levels in Afghanistan, so he's kept that promise. King, Beyond Vietnam, in A Call to Conscience, ed. 0000008326 00000 n A few years ago there was a shining moment in that. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within ones own bosom and in the surrounding world. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. 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's Speech Against the Vietnam War by David Bromwich May 16, 2008 O ne of the greatest speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., "A Time to Break Silence," was delivered at Riverside Church, New York City, on April 4, 1967. If you remember the speech, tell us what it meant at that time, and does the principle of nonviolence apply in the age of al-Qaida? Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality. As we all know, Neal, before he died, Robert McNamara, the Defense secretary that had Walt and others over in Vietnam, before he died, of course, announced that he was wrong. We encouraged them with our huge financial and military supplies to continue the war even after they had lost the will. 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. King Leads Chicago Peace Rally, New York Times, 26 March 1967. P: (650) 723-2092 | F: (650) 723-2093 | kinginstitute@stanford.edu| Campus Map. [citation needed]. During the last year of his life, King worked with Spock to develop Vietnam Summer, a volunteer project to increase grassroots peace activism in time for the 1968 elections. "[14] Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live. Jazmyn Ford. 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. It is curious that the Americans, who calculate so carefully on the possibilities of military victory, do not realize that in the process they are incurring deep psychological and political defeat. W. E. B. When we ask why they do not leap to negotiate, these things must be remembered. And let's see if we can get another caller on the line. We have destroyed their land and their crops. CONAN: And I think a lot of people will see your parallels regarding Iraq, where, indeed, the United States was the aggressor in that conflict. So practically everybody in his inner circle was against him giving it - one, because they knew the kind of pushback he was going to get. And that's the issue that King was raising. Will our message be that the forces of American life militate against their arrival as full men, and we send our deepest regrets? Surely we must see that the men we supported pressed them to their violence. Martin Luther King's Beyond Vietnam Speech is in many ways even more relevant today than in 1967. . In the light of such tragic misunderstandings, 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. This I believe to be the privilege and the burden of all of us who deem ourselves bound by allegiances and loyalties which are broader and deeper than nationalism and which go beyond our nations self-defined goals and positions. Please c, ontact Intellectual Properties Management (IPM), the exclusive licensor of the Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. at. Exactly one year before his assassination, on April 4, 1967, Rev. Could we blame them for such thoughts? Of course, again, that philosophy, when the papers got a hold of him the next day, that strategy didn't work so well. Martin Luther King Jr. was deeply troubled by the Vietnam War for years, but the "Beyond Vietnam" speech was his first major policy statement on the issue. 0000013330 00000 n Before the end of the war we were meeting eighty percent of the French war costs. Opposes Vietnam War, New York Times, 11 November 1965. 0000030467 00000 n This kind of positive revolution of values is our best defense against communism. Though the cause of evil prosper, Yet tis truth alone is strong; Though her portion be the scaffold, And upon the throne be wrong: Yet that scaffold sways the future, And behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow Keeping watch above his own. [6], King delivered the speech, sponsored by the group Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, after committing to participate in New York's April 15, 1967 anti-Vietnam war march from Central Park to the United Nations, sponsored by the Spring Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. Later that year King framed the issue of war in Vietnam as a moral issue: As a minister of the gospel, he said, I consider war an evil. Mr. SMILEY: Well, I think the question is whether or not - I hear your point, Neal, and I take it. HT0WJ3 O$L 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? Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. He summed up this aspect by saying, "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. 0000044282 00000 n BRC-NEWS: Black Radical Congress International News/Alerts/Announcements , Martin Luther King, Jr., delivering speech. But certainly one of the greatest orators of our time. 0000006536 00000 n Tavis Smiley joins us today from the Sheryl Flowers Studios in Los Angeles. So when the president suggests - and whether directly or indirectly, intentionally or unintentionally diminishes in that Nobel speech Martin's powerful, nonviolent philosophy, it tweaked some people, and you'll see that in the presentation Wednesday night. Hundreds of folks listened outside on loudspeakers. 0000009147 00000 n When you read the speech, if you replace the word Vietnam, every time it pops up, with the word Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan, you will be - it will blow your mind at how King, where he alive today at 81, could really stand up and give that same speech and just replace, again, Vietnam with Iraq and Afghanistan. Dr. Screenshots are considered by the King Estate a violation of this notice. 0000006515 00000 n The United States got involved in the Vietnam War because they wanted to stop the spread of communism. complaining of what he described as a double standard that applauded his nonviolence at home, but deplored it when applied "toward little brown Vietnamese children. This is Howard, which you know me. Four years after President John F. Kennedy sent the first American troops into Vietnam, Martin Luther King, Jr., issued his first public statement on the war. In a way we were agreeing with Langston Hughes, that black bard of Harlem, who had written earlier: O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath America will be! (1997). Freedom's Ring: King's "I Have a Dream" Speech, Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution, Martin Luther King, Jr. - Political and Social Views, Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam (CALCAV). Forego a bottle of soda and donate its cost to us for the information you just learned, and feel good about helping to make it available to everyone. How can they trust us when now we charge them with violence after the murderous reign of Diem and charge them with violence while we pour every new weapon of death into their land? Take immediate steps to prevent other battlegrounds in Southeast Asia by curtailing our military buildup in Thailand and our interference in Laos. So, too, with Hanoi. Some, like civil rights leader Ralph Bunche, the NAACP, and the editorial page writers of The Washington Post[3] and The New York Times[4] called the Riverside Church speech a mistake on King's part. The world now demands a maturity of America that we may not be able to achieve. It was written by activist and historian Vincent Harding. Seeking to reduce the potential backlash by framing his speech within the context of religious objection to war, King addressed a crowd of 3,000 people at Riverside Church in New York City. Not only that, but then-President Lyndon Johnson disinvited King to the White House. But they asked and rightly so what about Vietnam? Can I threaten them with death or must I not share with them my life? (Unintelligible) on this program about, you know, the chances he took and even, you know, speaking truth to power to LBJ helped him so much in civil rights. Undeterred, King, Spock, and Harry Belafonte led 10,000 demonstrators on an anti-war march to the United Nations on 15 April 1967. Now they languish under our bombs and consider us not their fellow Vietnamese the real enemy. I say we must enter the struggle, but I wish to go on now to say something even more disturbing. 0000017817 00000 n (Scott) King,My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr., 1969. Those pictures turned Dr. King's stomach. Life magazine called the speech "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi",[9] and The Washington Post declared that King had "diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people. Mr. TAVIS SMILEY (Host, "The Tavis Smiley Show"): Neal, always an honor to be on with you. I've always thought that was, to me, his best speech, his most consequential speech, even better than I have a dream in the mountain top speech. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. The Washington Post says he has done a discredit to himself, to his people, to his country. Is it among these voiceless ones? Mr. SMILEY: He'd wanted to give it two years earlier and had attempted a dry run at this speech, to your appoint, Neal, a couple of years prior to when he gave it. 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. Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment. But this is, again, precisely what King was concerned about, putting the lives of everyday Americans on the line in a fight that was not winnable and a war that was unjust. So this was a huge, huge speech that got Martin King in more trouble than anything he had ever said or done. In Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vietnam speech, lines 413-416, he repeats the phrase "this is not just" (161). His tireless work advocating for the end of. So all that we have is less than 10 minutes of video of the speech. What do they think as we test our latest weapons on them, just as the Germans tested out new medicine and new tortures in the concentration camps of Europe? And I think that if nothing else what we need to wrestle with in a contemporary sense, Neal, is the question of whether or not there is another way that King would have us consider were he allowed to do. So it was a great turnout. There is nothing, except a tragic death wish, to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. The peasants watched and cringed as Diem ruthlessly routed out all opposition, supported their extortionist landlords and refused even to discuss reunification with the north. And they, as news crews tend to do, they stayed to get just enough B-roll, as we call it Mr. SMILEY: for the news that night. "[22] King 's work to eradicate racial segregation was abruptly halted when he was assassinated on April 4, 1968, on the balcony of Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. "[10], King also criticized American opposition to North Vietnam's land reforms. 0000009168 00000 n Mr. SMILEY: Yeah, Walt, I thank you for sharing that story as well, for being courageous to tell it, number one. In 1967, in the shadows of Columbia, Dr. King shifted the world again. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition. "[14][15], The "Beyond Vietnam" speech reflected King's evolving political advocacy in his later years, which paralleled the teachings of the progressive Highlander Research and Education Center, with which he was affiliated. 5. But for those who presently choose but one, I would hope they will finally come to see the moral roots common to both. 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. The initiative to stop it must be ours. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, San Jose, April 15, 1967 Anti-Vietnam war demonstrations, 1968 Democratic National Convention protests, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, John F. 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So even McNamara eventually comes around to that point. PBS talk show. Nor is it an attempt to overlook the ambiguity of the total situation and the need for a collective solution to the tragedy of Vietnam. dH(*b(jGB@'k1zTR~{dA9|\b. CONAN: We're talking with Tavis Smiley about his PBS special, "Tavis Smiley Reports MLK: A Call to Conscience." I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. Attachment 4: Are We Ready to Listen to Dr. King? I would like to suggest five concrete things that our government should do immediately to begin the long and difficult process of extricating ourselves from this nightmarish conflict: 1. In that address, he articulated his reasons for his opposition to the Southeast Asian conflict. CONAN: Howard, thanks very much for the call. Of course, he's assassinated in Memphis a year to the day later after giving this speech. For as popular as King was, he was a Nobel laureate, there were only one or two news crews who actually came to see the speech that night, Neal. 1967 speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. 0000002964 00000 n And he starts out in the opening line at Riverside Church by saying: I am here tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. But it ends up being the most controversial speech. This is the message of the great Buddhist leaders of Vietnam. It makes for an excellent teaching tool for a unit on the Civil Rights Movement, Cold War and Vietnam, or as a bridge to combine the two! I must cry out when I see war escalated at any point (Opposes Vietnam War). We are adding cynicism to the process of death, for they must know after a short period there that none of the things we claim to be fighting for are really involved. Could it be that they do not know that the good news was meant for all men for Communist and capitalist, for their children and ours, for black and for white, for revolutionary and conservative? "[23], King also stated in "Beyond Vietnam" that "true compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. Kings opposition to the war provoked criticism from members of Congress, the press, and from his civil rights colleagues who argued that expanding his civil rights message to include foreign affairs would harm the black freedom struggle in America. Mr. SMILEY: Yeah. Moreover when the issues at hand seem as perplexed as they often do in the case of this dreadful conflict we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty; but we must move on. 0000005696 00000 n While King was personally opposed to the war, he was concerned that publicly criticizing U.S. foreign policy would damage his relationship with President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had been instrumental in passing civil rights legislation and who had declared in April 1965 that he was willing to negotiate a diplomatic end to the war in Vietnam. Finally, as I try to delineate for you and for myself the road that leads from Montgomery to this place I would have offered all that was most valid if I simply said that I must be true to my conviction that I share with all men the calling to be a son of the living God. Dr. A small donation would help us keep this available to all. 0000003454 00000 n Arent you hurting the cause of your people, they ask? In the 1950s and 1960s, his words led the Civil Rights Movement and helped change society. And so the question was, Martin, why would you antagonize the president who has been our friend? (1947) Moranda Smith Addresses The Congress Of Industrial Organizations Annual Convention, Boston, (1974) Congresswoman Barbara Jordans Statement: The Richard Nixon Impeachment Hearings, African American History: Research Guides & Websites, Global African History: Research Guides & Websites, African American Scientists and Technicians of the Manhattan Project, Envoys, Diplomatic Ministers, & Ambassadors, http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/058.html, Foundation, Organization, and Corporate Supporters. And number two, at what cost? They question our political goals and they deny the reality of a peace settlement from which they will be excluded. In that address, he articulated his reasons for his opposition to the Southeast Asian conflict. 0000002427 00000 n King delivered a speech entitled Beyond Vietnam, pointing out that the war effort was taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem (King, Beyond Vietnam, 143). No, Howard, I thank you for your phone call. Before he was assassinated at age 39, the Rev. Surely we must understand their feelings even if we do not condone their actions. We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. So, that's all I had to say. 0000011739 00000 n 0000003415 00000 n Dr. King is trying to get the point across that our country is being unfair to others. These are days which demand wise restraint and calm reasonableness. Fifty-years ago in April 1967, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered one of his most memorable, if not controversial sermons, at Riverside Church just steps away from the Columbia University campus. Appreciate it. 800-989-8255. I speak for the poor of America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam. Peace and civil rights dont mix, they say. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter but beautifulstruggle for a new world. A complete unit of instruction - include ALL answer documents - comparing and contrasting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Malcom X's early lives & speeches.This unit of study, which can be taught as a complete unit, or separated into 13 distinct activities . How do they judge us when our officials know that their membership is less than twenty-five percent Communist and yet insist on giving them the blanket name? And so I think most Americans, Neal, know the "I Have A Dream" speech. I have not urged a mechanical fusion of the civil rights and peace movements. And thank you for sharing what had to be a difficult story to tell. Howard's calling us from South Bend. Meanwhile we in the churches and synagogues have a continuing task while we urge our government to disengage itself from a disgraceful commitment. It will become clear that our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and men will not refrain from thinking that our maximum hope is to goad China into a war so that we may bomb her nuclear installations. There is.a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I and others have been waging in America. I join with you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam. For it occurs to me that what we are submitting them to in Vietnam is not simply the brutalizing process that goes on in any war where armies face each other and seek to destroy. I've always argue that Dr. King is the greatest American we've ever produced. I speak now not of the soldiers of each side, not of the junta in Saigon, but simply of the people who have been living under the curse of war for almost three continuous decades now. 0000009964 00000 n In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in . 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 thousand miles away from its shores. 0000002605 00000 n "MLK: A Call to Conscience" premieres on PBS tomorrow night. It's a powerful refrain, Neal, about what would've happened in his life, what he would've missed if he had sneezed at that very moment. It includes a portion of his speech. Ken Rudin joins guest host Rebecca Roberts. Less than two weeks after leading his first Vietnam demonstration, on 4 April 1967, King made his best known and most comprehensive statement against the war. Hb```f``; 6Pco;{Q. 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