Martin Luther King: Beyond Vietnam and Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution, 90th Cong., 2d sess., Congressional Record 114 (9 April 1968): 93919397. 0000011068 00000 n Fifty years ago in 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr.. 0000017817 00000 n "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence", also referred as the Riverside Church speech,[1] is an antiVietnam War and prosocial justice speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1967, exactly one year before he was assassinated. 0000002025 00000 n Or will there be another message, of longing, of hope, of solidarity with their yearnings, of commitment to their cause, whatever the cost? "[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. In order to atone for our sins and errors in Vietnam, we should take the initiative in bringing a halt to this tragic war. He did say he was going to increase troop levels in Afghanistan, so he's kept that promise. King, Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution, in A Knock at Midnight, ed. How are you, sir? Mr. SMILEY: We - let me just tell you this. Martin Luther King's Beyond Vietnam Speech is in many ways even more relevant today than in 1967. . Communism will never be defeated by the use of atomic bombs or nuclear weapons. dH(*b(jGB@'k1zTR~{dA9|\b. Read The Full Text And Listen To Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Beyond Vietnam" Speech. And Tavis, nice to have you back in the program. WALT (Caller): Yes. Legendary civil rights leader Rev. I am pleased to say that this is the path now being chosen by more than seventy students at my own alma mater, Morehouse College, and I recommend it to all who find the American course in Vietnam a dishonorable and unjust one. And the last poll taken in his life by Harris, the Harris Poll, Neal, found that nearly three quarters of the American people, nearly three quarters, had turned against Martin on this issue, and 55 percent of his own people, black folk, had turned against him. Because, to your point now, one, I want people to go online and read the speech so you can see the text for yourself. "[9], King opposed the Vietnam War because it took money and resources that could have been spent on social welfare at home. CONAN: We (unintelligible) to see it. 0000002964 00000 n Martin Luther King's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, 10 December 1964 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: I Have a Dream, speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., that was delivered on August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington. All Rights Reserved. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C. 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I just wanted to say that I was an 18-year-old Marine in Vietnam when the speech was given, and I didn't hear it until three or four years ago. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor both black and white through the poverty program. Hundreds of folks listened outside on loudspeakers. Please contact Intellectual Properties Management (IPM), the exclusive licensor of the Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. atlicensing@i-p-m.comor 404 526-8968. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today my own government. 0000006536 00000 n Before the end of the war we were meeting eighty percent of the French war costs. King had read Marx while at Morehouse, but while he rejected "traditional capitalism", he also rejected communism because of its "materialistic interpretation of history" that denied religion, its "ethical relativism", and its "political totalitarianism. We must not call everyone a Communist or an appeaser who advocates the seating of Red China in the United Nations and who recognizes that hate and hysteria are not the final answers to the problem of these turbulent days. 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. PBS talk show. In Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vietnam speech, lines 413-416, he repeats the phrase "this is not just" (161). 0000011437 00000 n Instead, we decided to support France in its reconquest of her former colony. 0000013309 00000 n Realistically accept the fact that the National Liberation Front has substantial support in South Vietnam and must thereby play a role in any meaningful negotiations and in any future Vietnam government. They must weep as the bulldozers roar through their areas preparing to destroy the precious trees. [1][5], King was long opposed to American involvement in the Vietnam War, but at first avoided the topic in public speeches in order to avoid the interference with civil rights goals that criticism of President Johnson's policies might have created. But they didn't stay for the speech in its entirety. 0000044282 00000 n We have corrupted their women and children and killed their men. They must see Americans as strange liberators. "[14] CONAN: Tavis Smiley, author, journalist, political commentator, host of his talk show on PBS, joins us today from the Sheryl Flowers Studios in Los Angeles. 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? Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech opposing the Vietnam War in April 1967. He passed the Voting Rights Act. Of course, he's assassinated in Memphis a year to the day later after giving this speech. In his last Sunday sermon, delivered at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on 31 March 1968, King said that he was convinced that [Vietnam] is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world (King, Remaining Awake, 219). Also it must be clear that the leaders of Hanoi considered the presence of American troops in support of the Diem regime to have been the initial military breach of the Geneva agreements concerning foreign troops, and they remind us that they did not begin to send in any large number of supplies or men until American forces had moved into the tens of thousands. As if the weight of such a commitment to the life and health of America were not enough, another burden of responsibility was placed upon me in 1964; and I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for the brotherhood of man. This is a calling that takes me beyond national allegiances, but even if it were not present I would yet have to live with the meaning of my commitment to the ministry of Jesus Christ. AFP/AFP/Getty Images CONAN: And the place - choice of place is very interesting too. 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. 0000013330 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. In his 1967 speech on the Vietnam War, Martin Luther King, Jr. employs figurative language and syntactical elements to construct his argument against the hypocrisy and cruelty of American involvement in the war. 0000009168 00000 n I'm Neal Conan. The image of America will never again be the image of revolution, freedom and democracy, but the image of violence and militarism.. I say we must enter the struggle, but I wish to go on now to say something even more disturbing. The United States got involved in the Vietnam War because they wanted to stop the spread of communism. And after I was wounded, we had four or five 100-pound bomb dropped on us, and 10 Marines were killed outright and 24 were wounded. But it ends up being the most controversial speech. I've always argue that Dr. King is the greatest American we've ever produced. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave a speech that may have helped put a target on . And what really got him to the point of figuring that he really, really had to address this again back to the children, he couldn't say to young folks in this country who were being denied, that they should engage nonviolence as a philosophy when he saw the children, when he saw these pictures of these Vietnamese children being bombed and the impact - the effect that napalm was having on their bodies. But they chose Riverside because King was going to be speaking some days later at a huge rally and march in New York City, and they knew that that rally was going to bring out a different kind of element, a more controversial element. And let's see if we can get another caller on the line. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. CONAN: Howard, thanks very much for the call. This oft misunderstood and misinterpreted conceptso readily dismissed by the Nietzsches of the world as a weak and cowardly forcehas now become an absolute necessity for the survival of man. What do they think of our condoning the violence which led to their own taking up of arms? When Diem was overthrown they may have been happy, but the long line of military dictatorships seemed to offer no real changeespecially in terms of their need for land and peace. (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. 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. 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 was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population. The message directly challenged the president who'd taken great political risks to support civil rights legislation and also challenged many of his colleagues in the movement who've called it a tactical mistake. Martin built his speech that night, Neal, around three major points: around increasing militarism, around escalating poverty and around the issue of racism. 0000011739 00000 n After 1954 they watched us conspire with Diem to prevent elections which would have surely brought Ho Chi Minh to power over a united Vietnam, and they realized they had been betrayed again. This has driven many to feel that only Marxism has the revolutionary spirit. One of the things, I hope, Neal, will happen here is that when people get a chance to see the special, they will be moved - I think they will be - to Google or Bing, whatever search engine you use, to go online, because the speech is so readily available, Neal, as you know. They know they must move or be destroyed by our bombs. 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. He knows the bombing and shelling and mining we are doing are part of traditional pre-invasion strategy. 0000009985 00000 n 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. 20072023 Blackpast.org. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. 0000003415 00000 n And at that march, he knew there would be people, as you point out in the film, waving Vietnamese flags and chanting CONAN: Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, NLF is going to win, and that sort of thing and it would clearly be taken in a very different context. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Beyond Vietnam" was a powerful and angry speech that raged against the war. 0000004621 00000 n "[24] King quoted a United States official who said that from Vietnam to Latin America, the country was "on the wrong side of a world revolution. Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. v. CBS, Inc. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), African American founding fathers of the United States, Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Pueblo, Colorado), Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, San Francisco. "MLK: A Call to Conscience" premieres on PBS tomorrow night. Grossfield, Stan. Martin Luther King, Jr., giving his speech Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence at Riverside Church in NYC, April 4, 1967. 0000002337 00000 n 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. That Vietnam was a mistake. 0000001645 00000 n "It basically ruins their relationship," says Smiley. Neither is it an attempt to make North Vietnam or the National Liberation Front paragons of virtue, nor to overlook the role they can play in a successful resolution of the problem. They brought in extra chairs. Now let us begin. Have they forgotten that my ministry is in obedience to the one who loved his enemies so fully that he died for them? So he was no longer on that particular list. 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. So King understood violence. 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). 0000002874 00000 n The truth of these words is beyond doubt but the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. Although the peace community lauded Kings willingness to take a public stand against the war in Vietnam, many within the civil rights movement further distanced themselves from his stance. Mr. SMILEY: Indeed he did, Neal. 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. A few years ago there was a shining moment in that. 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. You can also join the conversation at our Web site. Mr. SMILEY: It's a powerful point made by Clayborne Carson at Stanford who is in charge, as you know, Neal, of the King papers. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. On April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a controversial sermon opposing the Vietnam War at Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, then helped lead a large antiwar march from Central Park to the United Nations later that month. But certainly one of the greatest orators of our time. It was a tactical mistake. This speech is not addressed to Hanoi or to the National Liberation Front. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard? Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [citation needed], One of the eight "sound cells" in @Large, Ai Weiwei's 201415 exhibit at Alcatraz, features King's voice giving the "Beyond Vietnam" speech. Then came the buildup in Vietnam and I watched the 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 tube. On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech in New York City at Riverside Church on the occasion of his becoming co-chairperson of Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam (subsequently renamed Clergy and Laity Concerned ). So, that's all I had to say. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. 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? And thirdly, I think the main point here in this MLK "Beyond Vietnam" speech is that there is another way. "I've Been to the Mountaintop" is the popular name of the last speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. King spoke on April 3, 1968, at the Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters) in Memphis, Tennessee. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the deepest hopes of men the world over. Martin Luther King Jr. held his acceptance speech in the auditorium of the University of Oslo on 10 December 1964. In so many words, powerful interests told him: "Mind your own business.". Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality. 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. His tireless work advocating for the end of. There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have been waging in America. Mr. SMILEY: Indeed, he did. 0000008347 00000 n Hb```f``; 6Pco;{Q. 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I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. HT0WJ3 O$L BRC-NEWS: Black Radical Congress International News/Alerts/Announcements , Martin Luther King, Jr., delivering speech. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate. Set a date that we will remove all foreign troops from Vietnam in accordance with the 1954 Geneva agreement. Mr. SMILEY: And therein lies the rub. A Comparative Study of Martin Luther King Jr & Malcolm X. by. Smiley spoke with both scholars and friends of King, including Cornel West, Vincent Harding and Susannah Heschel. Mr. SMILEY: Yeah. 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. 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. I would like to see the fervor of the civil-rights movement imbued into the peace movement to instill it with greater strength. Meanwhile we in the churches and synagogues have a continuing task while we urge our government to disengage itself from a disgraceful commitment. 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). 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. Before long they must know that their government has sent them into a struggle among Vietnamese, and the more sophisticated surely realize that we are on the side of the wealthy and the secure while we create hell for the poor. After he gives it, 168 major newspapers the next day denounce him. It demands that we admit that we have been wrong from the beginning of our adventure in Vietnam, that we have been detrimental to the life of the Vietnamese people. ", After King delivered the speech, Smiley reports, "168 major newspapers the next day denounced him." As the head of state, I cannot necessarily embrace the same principles that, as you point out, Martin Luther King, a prophet, an outsider could embrace. Where are the roots of the independent Vietnam we claim to be building? Appreciate it. And when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling. Our government felt then that the Vietnamese people were not ready for independence, and we again fell victim to the deadly Western arrogance that has poisoned the international atmosphere for so long. "[22] Even though they quoted the American Declaration of Independence in their own document of freedom, we refused to recognize them. 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. He was one of the most important and influential Civil Rights leaders in the 1950s and 1960s. The Americans are forcing even their friends into becoming their enemies. If Dr. King were to say to the organizers of these events, I'd like to show up at your church on Sunday morning, at your rally this weekend, and here's what I want to say, there is a good argument to be made that Dr. King himself might not be welcome - might not be allowed to say what was in his heart, what his conscience really was, given the political correctness of the world that we live in today. King's "Beyond Vietnam" speech was delivered at the Riverside Church in New York exactly one year before his assassination. "This was a huge, huge speech," he continues, "that got Martin King in more trouble than anything he had ever seen or done. 0000043425 00000 n On April 4, 1967 Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a speech named, "Beyond Vietnam- A Time to Break Silence" addressing the Vietnam War. And about a month after that speech was given, I was wounded. We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. 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. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, GA on January 15th, 1929. Could we blame them for such thoughts? They were led by Ho Chi Minh. And I can't tell young black men, who are being denied right here in the streets of America, that they should offer themselves up and to sign themselves up to go - to do harm to people around the world who they do not know. With that tragic decision we rejected a revolutionary government seeking self-determination, and a government that had been established not by China (for whom the Vietnamese have no great love) but by clearly indigenous forces that included some Communists. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their governments policy, especially in time of war.
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