"He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” MLK

[Philosoraptor]

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0118-27.htm

On the evening of the fourth of April, 1967, one year to the day (almost to the hour) before his assassination, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. walked into Riverside Church in Manhattan and delivered a speech that was among his least well known, yet most controversial.

The speech was an eloquent, full-throated denunciation of the war in Vietnam, one of the earliest public critiques by such a high-profile American. Silence in the face of the horrors of that war, said Dr. King, amounted to a “betrayal.”

The speech unleashed a hurricane of criticism. Even the N.A.A.C.P. complained about Dr. King stepping out of his perceived area of expertise, civil rights, to raise his voice against the evil of the war. The Times headlined an editorial, “Dr. King’s Error.”

The war would go on for another eight years, ultimately taking the lives of 58,000 Americans and a million to two million Vietnamese. Dr. King himself would be silenced, at the age of 39, by a bullet in Memphis.

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[dogday]

2. Only Thing Necessary for Triumph of Evil is for Good Men to do Nothing

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[marmar]

3. Another great MLK quote:

"Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest."