Martin Luther King Jr. on War
By Leslie on January 21, 2008 at 6:45 PM in Current Affairs
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During the last few years of his life, Martin Luther King, Jr., began to see the relationship between war and civil rights and poverty. Although he realized that denouncing the Vietnam War risked alienating President Johnson, his ally on civil rights legislation, and the civil rights movement. Nevertheless Martin Luther King, Jr., followed his conscience and refused to back down.
In December 1966, testifying before a congressional subcommittee on budget priorities, King argued for a ‘‘rebalancing’’ of fiscal priorities away from America’s ‘‘obsession’’ with Vietnam and toward greater support for anti-poverty programs at home…. King led his first anti-war march in Chicago on 25 March 1967, and reinforced the connection between war abroad and injustice at home: ‘‘The bombs in Vietnam explode at home—they destroy the dream and possibility for a decent America….”
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