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Quotes from Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam — Martin Luther King Jr.

1929–1968 United States

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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (1967)

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (1967)

He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery. Freedom is still the bonus we receive for knowing the truth.

Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (1967)

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.

Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (1967)

Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (1967)

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar.

Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (1967)

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.

Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (1967)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Martin Luther King Jr. (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.