May 11, 1961 to April 30, 1975. Four years after President John F. Kennedy sent the first American troops into Vietnam, Martin Luther King, Jr., issued his first public statement on the war.

Over the past two years, as I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart, as I have called for radical departures from the destruction of Vietnam, many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my path.

On 4 April 1967 Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his seminal speech at Riverside Church condemning the Vietnam War. Declaring “my conscience leaves me no other choice,” King described the war’s deleterious effects on both America’s poor and Vietnamese peasants and insisted that it was morally imperative for the United States to take ...

Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence", also referred as the Riverside Church speech, [1] is an anti–Vietnam War and pro–social justice speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1967, in New York City exactly one year before he was assassinated.

Sees Vietnam destroying the war on poverty in US. Since I am a preacher by trade, I suppose it is not surprising that I have seven major reasons for bringing Vietnam into the field of my moral vision.

In this speech, Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out harshly against the war in Vietnam. His speech "Beyond Vietnam" was condemned by many civil rights leaders who thought it hurt their cause. It incensed President Lyndon Johnson, who revoked King's invitation to the White House.

Mar 30, 2010 · Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Beyond Vietnam" was a powerful and angry speech that raged against the war. At the time, civil rights leaders publicly condemned him for it.

Mar 25, 2018 · King’s opposition to the Vietnam War gained national attention on February 25, 1967, when he appeared alongside four anti-war U.S. senators at a daylong symposium in Beverly Hills, California.

Mar 25, 2025 · Martin Luther King Jr. worked closely with Thich Nhat Hanh, a Zen Buddhist monk and peace activist. By the 1960s, Thich Nhat Hanh had both taken direct action to aid those in South Vietnam and begun writing and speaking in opposition to the Vietnam War. Facing accusations that he was a communist, Thich Nhat Hanh was exiled from Vietnam in 1973.

Nov 16, 2009 · King proposed that the United States stop all bombing of North and South Vietnam; declare a unilateral truce in the hope that it would lead to peace talks; set a date for withdrawal of all troops...