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Martin Luther King and War
"I
knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence
of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly
to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my
own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about
a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent
toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be
nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something
wrong with that press.... "Don't
let anybody make you think that God chose America as His divine
messianic force to be – a sort of policeman of the whole world.
God has a way of standing before the nations with judgment, and
it seems that I can hear God saying to America: 'You are too arrogant!
If you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone
of your power...'" Thanks to the Institute for Public Accuracy. January 17, 2003
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Martin
Luther King had a lot to say about war and militarism, though we
are not supposed to remember that. Here are two excerpts from his
sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on April 30, 1967:
