Honoring Martin Luther King
Honor Martin Luther King
January 15, 2024, is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
On April 4, 1967, Rev. Martin Luther King spoke out strongly against the US war in Vietnam. He said: “This Madness Must Cease”. The U.S. is “The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World Today.”
Read the full MLK speech “Beyond Vietnam” and watch the video here
lhttp://www.worldfuturefund.org/Reports2013/Martinlutherkingspeech1967.htm
King’s words were true in 1967 and remain true today in 2024.
King spoke those words one year to the day of his assassination on April 4, 1968
Rev. King saw the US war in Vietnam as “a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit.” Later that spring, he asserted that “the evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism are all tied together”: we could not “get rid of one without getting rid of the others [and] the whole structure of American life must be changed.”
Today, and every day, we must speak out for justice, peace, and social change!
Jim Albertini Malu ‘Aina Center For Non-Violent Education & Action P.O. Box 489 Ola’a (Kurtistown) Hawai’i 96760
Phone 808-966-7622 Email ja@malu-aina.org Visit us on the web at www.malu-aina.org
