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Date: January 15, 2018 12:15PM
It’s a bone-rattling, heart-expanding speech. I love it. As a life-long lover of this man and his work, one of the great highlights of my life was visiting his home and church in Atlanta, and walking the Peace Path(?) to Carter’s Presidential Library
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But Americans today need to read another great speech, the neglected one, the anti-war speech he gave at the Riverside Church, New York City, on April 4, 1967. This is the great speech, the courageous truth-telling speech, the speech that turned the liberal establishment against him and sent fear through the power centres of Washington. This is the great prophetic speech by Martin Luther King, jr., a prophesy still not heeded, alas.
Here’s Yale’s David Bromwich’s excellent take on this speech, the speech Americans largely ignore but need more than ever:
http://original.antiwar.com/david-bromwich/2008/05/16/martin-luther-kings-speech-against-the-vietnam-war/Human