MLK: Beyond Vietnam A Time to Break Silence ( Full)

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. April 4, 1967 Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence Full and unabridged. Personal favorite quotes: 8:09 A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor both black and white through the poverty program. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. 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