Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam - Full Speech.wmv 

There's something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that will praise you when you say, Be non-violent toward Jim Clark, but will curse and damn you when you say, "Be non-violent toward little brown Vietnamese children. There's something wrong with that press!

'Communism is a judgement against our failure to make democracy real'. Incredible, this man was amazing, and this sermon should be required listening for all, particularly US citizens.

His greatest speech!! The establishment will only tell you of his 'I Have a Dream Speech.' With this speech he wage his battle against poverty. Then, the establishment killed him. You can't tell me that it's not our responsibility to continue his legacy against the evils that the establishment made normal.

"...and sending them 8000 miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they have not found in Southwest Georgia and East Harlem..." tell it, brother

This was the sermon that made all Hell break loose. If anybody notices it was all good when he had a dream but when he dropped this sermon he barely lived a whole year after this sermon. MLK didn't get killed because of the dream, he got killed because he woke up.

For years I have called for a moratorium on the" I have a dream" speech that is repeated over and over again ad infinitum. It locks King into a 1963 mindset and disregards the last five years of his life." Why I oppose the war in Viet Nam" provides a more expansive view of a man who was in keeping with the issues of the day. To your journey!

I'm 43 it's 2018, i have never heard this speech before..i have goosebumps and tears.

I am not religious, i am an atheist but at the end of the day i have a great deal of respect for Dr Luther King Jr, i feel no matter if you follow religion or not you should listen to his words.

Prophetic...he could be talking about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan today...he's also describing the treatment of Native American tribes by the US military.

"The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others & nothing to learn from them is not just.” WHEW 🔥🔥🔥

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." Absolute truth!!!!!

Break the backbone of America and place power in a nation that doesn't even know my name. Truest words ever spoken.

This is part of the reason he was killed. RIP MLK

this was the speech that pretty much made all hell break loose....

He had faith in the kindness and compassion of man. He preached tolerance and love. He gives me hope that one day all of mankind will live in peace. The guns of war will fall silent. Human beings will look on each other and the planet with tenderness and compassion.

It's incredible that many Americans who study the Vietnam war and civil rights movement and consider themselves knowledgeable have never heard this speech. It remains deeply uncomfortable that we exploitated the very people we fought and died for.

Man among men if there was ever one. Brilliant speech and as relevant today as it was in his time. Thank you great one. Namaste

This is one of my favorite speeches of his. I like the fact that he stood up for what he believed in.

Miss him so much! We needed him then and we need him now!

Powerful. I had to listen to it twice and then wonder why I have never heard this before.

Since I have a biography project on MLK Jr. for Black History Month, I searched for some of his speeches. I found this and it is true that I am Vietnamese. 😄

And Kellyanne says Dr. King would be against 45's Impeachment. Can you imagine?! We STILL RISE! We will never be silenced! 🙏🏽🇺🇸💙

Truth. As relevant today as it was the day he delivered his sermon.

While most of us recognize small bits of universal truths, Dr. King recognized the full spectrum of universal truth. Universal truths that effect each and everyone of us, in one way or another and at one time or another. That is the essence of Dr. King - the full spectrum of universal truth. God's Word is the only universal truth.

What a beautiful man with a beautiful brave heart -- speaking his mind regardless of how controversial. And paying a steep price for it, proudly so, I imagine...

I am an artist, and a writer. They are the only things I am even remotely good at. But in the name of the great Dr. King, I will use them for the cause of anti-war. For the rights of all people. It's the least I can do for a man who paid the ultimate price for his belief that all should be treated equally.

Greatest speech ever spoken in the US. and how tragically it is still so relevant today :( will we ever learn ???

In my opinion this is far and away his greatest speech. Thank you so much for posting it!

I listen to this speech each year on April 4th and morn the assassination of Dr. King. I then send this to several other people who may have never heard it, or send a copy of the transcript, etc. I used to have to send it by snail mail, now I can put it on twitter or in e-mail. You should do the same and help these truths to be more widely known. RIP Dr. King.

Pure truth preacher. May he rest in peace for future eternity. May Martin Luther King Jr. day be the greatest holiday in history. He was truly the greatest hero of both America and the world.

Brilliant. Rings as eloquently, and as applicably today as it did in 1967.

This sermon needs to be heard by every American citizen. RIP, Dr King. Thank you for all your work.

This is why i don't go to church anymore,i am tired of so called minister's sticking their head's in the sand and not being informed like Dr. King. Minister's like Dr. King were present in all aspects of the constitution and bill of right's,they just don't make em like him anymore. Is there anyone out there?

This sermon threatened the life of our beloved ancestor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lIsten to it and reflect.

Martin Luther king one of a kind.

What MLK Jr. said in this speech about the of USA future was prophetic!

This can very well be one of the most important speeches of the twentieth century or just maybe, the most important in the history of mankind. Because it can be applied to any period in history when mans inhumanity towards man lead his to commit genocide.

Fact-checking this speech, I find absolute truth so far. The man was indeed a prophet.

America was and is now the land of celebrities, none of them equals this angel like personality.

One of the greatest American of all times ..

this message and method is so empowering. It is a must listen to, a primer for social justice advocates And those committed to proactive change.makers...listen and learn.

He gangster slap the establishment with this speech and yes they kill him for it, he knew the ramification, His intellect was non parelled.

So we are just gonna sit here and pretend like we don't notice this speech has been tampered with and bits have been taken out???

Thank you. I have listened to this speech every year. It remains fresh.

Critical Race Theory opponents don't want people to listen to this speech but they will put I have a Dream Speech on constant loop .DR king had plenty of great speeches pull it up on You Tube. Drum Major Insticnt is also a great speech among hundreds of others.

Timeless and powerfully chilling. A true Servant of God. Not sure we’ll ever get another.

should there really be ads on this? no one Alive owns this mans words

I LOVE THIS SPEECH!!!

Martin Luther King Jr is among humanity greatest hero. He was ahead his time. Preaching embrace diversity instead demons, devil, depression, destitute, devastation, destruction, diseases, deads, drugs, debtbeat, divisiveness, discrimination and dangers and doom.

One of Dr King best speeches it indicates how much Dr King stood on his value system and exposing how America doesn't give justice unto the ppl

You know they went after King, when he spoke out on Vietnam He turned the power to the have-nots And then came the shot!

RALLY YOUR FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES, FAMILIES, AND THOSE WHO WILL NOT STAND FOR THE INJUSTICE IN OUR SOCIETY TODAY! WE MUST ACT THROUGH LOVE WITH NO MORALLY ABSENT DECISION MAKING!

I meant, what MLK Jr. said in this speech about the future of the US was prophetic because it came true, yo! For real! For real, Paul!

I listen to this twice a week to seek comfort and direction

Truly the greatest speech ever given

In the early 80's this was NOT sold nor spoken about at The King Center in Atlanta ! We heard it gettint it through hand to hand cassettes past to each other. They just bombed Syria today!

....and I'll place it in the hands of a country who doesn't even know my name Boss

What a great man!

Thanks for this !!! Applies equally today....unfortunately ....history repeats.....time for humanity to take a step up the evolutionary ladder beyond violence and into cooperation

...It's a bumpy road often traveled.... ...I want every human being accorded the respect and dignity due them; fighting oppression and injustice where WE find it is the right thing to do. More important than any nation or race or our various gods or ideologies: the dignity of each human being. NOTHING on earth is more precious. It's our duty to support one another by making sure we are all well fed, housed and clothed, treated respectfully and justly, and are allowed to make progress...

This man was the Bomb. The greatest orator the modern world has known.

A great man and great leader, there will never be another Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His beautiful soul rest in peace. ^_^

Only till recently did I understand because of this speech. I am Hmong, my ancestors who held hands with the United STates CIA and with Ho Chi Mihn and North Vietnam. Hmong People had a Civil War after World 2 because of the vacuum of Power - There was a Combined "French Japanese Occupation" in Indo China. Much Complicated - everything links back to "COLONIALISM" WW2 and WW1. Need to see history for what it is

The greatest orator of all time.

We need more men and women like him to stand to the trump administration. But sadly men like him do not came along in every generation. He was alive to day I would vote him for President.

I LOVE THIS SPEECH!!!. I LOVE THIS SPEECH!!!.

Prophetic speech...

It would be great if the date of the speech and location.I believe this was the speech that got him killed.Love you so much man we need you so bad.

Not a false fell from his mouth, ever.

Yes my brother. Let freedom ring! Let freedom ring!

Should be illegal to put ads on this.

I love Martin Luther King, I really wish he was alive!

The Truth Will Set You Free

Matthew 5:44 beloved. God bless and keep you for carrying the cross and not falling for cheap grace but truly listening to the words of the ineffable Yeshua will not make one popular with the world but will make one a vessel of truth and righteousness. Be well.

The oppressed go through this, but one day the world will witness a flash of lightning, and then it's over!

Silence is violence…? Nawww.. “silence IS betrayal”

''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 must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. And we must rejoice as well, for in all our history there has never been such a monumental dissent during a war, by the American people.'' The text is here: www.informationclearinghouse. info/ article 16183 htm

I listen to this speech on his birthday, during the year and on his date of death. I am a Vietnam veteran. I was stationed at Fort Hamiliton, NY when Dr. King was assassinated. Probably two days after we were taken to a parade field in the anticipation of being deployed into Harlem for 'riot control'. Hey I was 20 years old what did I know. Up until about 10 years ago, in the King/Malcom X discussion I always went with Malcom X. I'm a white guy and to me King's way of thinking was a sellout to black people. That was the thought in the 'white radical' perspective in the 60's. Maybe I was wrong.

I pity the lost souls who voted down this speech. They know not what they do.

Many people say that it was because of this talk he was killed, the government could not allow him to speak about this.

Is this Dr. King's first public antiwar speech, “Beyond Vietnam,” at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967?

Thanks for making this available

I'm watching this on his birthday

This is the greatest speech

1:53 Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins

Well McNamara, Kissinger, and Johnson was the triumvirate for the Vietnam mess. How Kissinger lives with himself is beyond me.

Who else caught chills?

No war, these days mankind is divided my status 🧐, everything got to do with much much money yuh make, where you live, how yuh live and who you are socialize group is. Thing that make no sense and can't improve mankind emotions towards each other so we fight, we kill and thief each other, so you can find a lot of good people rather staying to them self and people they can 💯💯💯💯 trust. Mankind is only heading toward disaster until we can see eye to eye, until that days will color or education matter 💯💯💯💯💯👁️👁️👁️

ALL THIS IS OUR GIFT TO THE WORLD. IT S NEARLY FOR AFRICAN PEOPLE IN EVERY IN THIS WORLD TO BRIG PEACE JOY AND WISENESSE. THE RISE OF BLACK PEOPLE IS THE TRUE RISE OF MAN KIND

God bless you Dr. King

That was in 1967 Sixty-Fucking-Seven and it still sounds like the America of Today :/ Ya know, Mark Twain said that history doesn't repeat itself, it only rhymes, but damn is this close

As we stand on the brink of yet another US involvement in the Middle East (Syria) President Obama truly needs to closely listen to this particular speech by Dr. King. He needs to do so before he commits our human resources and military weapons to violence against other people. I sympathize with the suffering of the innocent in Syria, but, IMO, US involvement will not stop that suffering, and will probably add to it. There must be another way to try to influence the cessation of civil war.

"Because my conciousness leave me no other choice" He is the most perfect picture of Jesus Christ in Gethsemane. He new that he was facing death, his human body fears, but there is no choice. "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done." "Because my conciousness leaves me no other choice."

I love this Angel of God

Oh dreamer . Rest well .

MLK's dream is still only that. Though he's gone his words still ring true and the fight must still be fought, whether it is done through desperate song or raised fists.

30:20 "The shirtless and barefoot people of the land are rising up as never before." Now it seems they are laying down as never before.

I LIKE this guy - you can hear how down he feels in this one, less upbeat, maybe not time to think of his snappy turns of phrase, just a slow sad actuality - yet 15 minutes in he's REALLY going for it - inexorable unstoppable truth! Many of his own people would say "its not our struggle" I believe he'd seen the picture of the burned, napalmed little girl in the restaurant "doesn't your food taste good Mr King?" "NOTHING will taste good now I've seen this' By the way the spiteful "Faithful Word Baptist Church" just ran a piece called 'Marxist lucifer king' - you might want to find their 'Tommy No Doubt' channel and challenge their countless violations of Jesus most basic tenets - with their "kill the gays" rhetoric. Thank You Wow 30 minutes in my eyes are wet - I wonder if this was unrehearsed, it starts so slowly - like our aspirations to Justice - and becomes an unstoppable Force

26:50 I'm convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered.

20:24 They quoted our Declaration of Independence in their document of freedom, and yet our government refused to recognize them. President Truman said they were not ready for independence. So we fell victim as a nation at that time of the same deadly arrogance that has poisoned the international situation for all of these years. France then set out to reconquer its former colony. And they fought eight long, hard, brutal years trying to re-conquer Vietnam. You know who helped France? It was the United States of America. It came to the point that we were meeting more than eighty percent of the war costs. And even when France started despairing of its reckless action, we did not. And in 1954, a conference was called at Geneva, and an agreement was reached, because France had been defeated at Dien Bien Phu. But even after that, and after the Geneva Accord, we did not stop. We must face the sad fact that our government sought, in a real sense, to sabotage the Geneva Accord. Well, after the French were defeated, it looked as if independence and land reform would come through the Geneva agreement. But instead the United States came and started supporting a man named Diem who turned out to be one of the most ruthless dictators in the history of the world. He set out to silence all opposition. People were brutally murdered because they raised their voices against the brutal policies of Diem. And the peasants watched and cringed as Diem ruthlessly rooted out all opposition. The peasants watched as all this was presided over by United States influence and by increasing numbers of United States troops who came to help quell the insurgency that Diem's methods had aroused. When Diem was overthrown, they may have been happy, but the long line of military dictatorships seemed to offer no real change, especially in terms of their need for land and peace. And who are we supporting in Vietnam today? It's a man by the name of general Ky [Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky] who fought with the French against his own people, and who said on one occasion that the greatest hero of his life is Hitler. This is who we are supporting in Vietnam today. Oh, our government and the press generally won't tell us these things, but God told me to tell you this morning. The truth must be told.