A year to the day before his assassination on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Martin Luther King Jr. was in New York City, at the Riverside Church on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, talking about Vietnam.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 speech condemning the Vietnam War offers a powerful moral compass as we face the challenges of our time. This article appears in the April 2024 issue. During a ...

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MLK's anti-Vietnam War stance offers lessons for peace in Middle East (Opinion) By Hajar Yazdiha Jan 13, 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. speaks at U.C. Berkeley on May 17, 1967.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., left, appearing in a Chicago news conference with Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist monk from Vietnam, suggests a halt in bombing of Vietnam on May 31, 1966.

MLK was murdered in April 1968. ... 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.

— Martin Luther King Jr., “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” “We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech is well known, but there are several other key speeches that also resonate as historical signposts of the Civil Rights Movement.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 speech condemning the Vietnam War offers a powerful moral compass as we face the challenges of our time. During a sermon in 1967, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ...