Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence By Rev. Martin Luther King

With everyone from George W. Bush to McDonalds trying to pimp the memory of Dr. King, it is important to remember what he was really saying one year before he was cut down -- when he was well beyond "I have a dream." The same people, including the press, excoriated then tried to marginalize Dr. King for taking his message beyond mere legal equality and re-connecting the Black Freedom Movement with the struggle against imperialism. But King's own words are on record, and with our help we can show each generation how this leader’s work was taking on a revolutionary character... and we can halt the attempt to domesticate his memory and the memory of this struggle... which continues to this day.

As we approach this year’s MLK weekend, I want to re-post his historic speech at Riverside Church, and to paraphrase Dr. King now, by saying:

Every bomb dropped over Iraq explodes from Mobile to New Orleans.

Read his speech