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Sun Jan-20-08 05:40 PM
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Martin Luther King: "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam" |
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Sun Jan-20-08 05:57 PM
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1. Everyone should listen to this. |
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Lets keep this kicked above the Clinton Vs Obama threads please.
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Sun Jan-20-08 06:38 PM
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Sun Jan-20-08 06:08 PM
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3. A most inspiring speech! Recommended! |
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Sun Jan-20-08 06:12 PM
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4. I'll kick to that! (nt) |
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Sun Jan-20-08 06:13 PM
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5. Mark for later viewing and thanks for posting n/t |
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Sun Jan-20-08 06:21 PM
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The voice in the wilderness. I feel shivers listening to this speech.
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Sun Jan-20-08 06:57 PM
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12. With everything going on in this country today, his words offer great hope. |
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Sun Jan-20-08 06:27 PM
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7. Funny - I was going to post this today |
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Great stuff - delivered at one of the best churches in the USA - the Riverside Church near Columbia University.
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Sun Jan-20-08 06:29 PM
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8. There is no doubt in my mind that this speech was Dr. King signing his own death warrant |
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And I think he knew it too. Hardly no one was outspoken against the war on April 30, 1967. Such people would have been considered traitors by my parents and their friends at the time. I was 12. I remember this speech though. And the uproar it caused. He was dead not too long afterwords.
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Sun Jan-20-08 06:44 PM
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10. Yah. He was hugely threatening already as a civil rights leader. |
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No effin' way the war mongers were gonna let him get that movement rolling. NO way.
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I must always force myself to refrain from imagining what could have been had he been allowed to live, along with the Kennedys.
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Sun Jan-20-08 06:50 PM
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11. It's a very powerful message |
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a prophetic message to our government. That it is delivered by a respected, inspirational leader made it very dangerous from the point of view of certain elements in the U.S. government, that cannot be denied. And so the FBI felt it critical to sully Dr. King's reputation in an attempt to discredit his movement and his message.
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Sun Jan-20-08 07:06 PM
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13. I'd like to think the world would be a better place if he hadn't been murdered |
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His ideals will live on, always.
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