Genesis

Lisbeth Mariano
Professor:
English 102
Date: December 14, 2012

Beyond Vietnam
(Martin Luther King)

Martin Luther King, Jr. was perhaps one of the most influential persons of our time. Asthe father of modern civil rights movement, Dr.Martin Luther king, Jr is recognized around the world as a symbol of freedom and peace.
“Each day the war goes on the hatred increases in the heartof the Vietnamese and in the hearts of those of humanitarian instinct. The Americans are forcing even their friends into becoming their enemies. It is curious that the Americans, who calculate socarefully on the possibilities of military victory, do not realize that in the process they are incurring deep psychological and political defeat. The image of America will never again be the image ofrevolution, freedom and democracy, but the image of violence and militarism." With this phrase he wants tells that this country never would be a country of peace because promote violence.
“I speak as achild of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor ofAmerica who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. Ispeak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours. He talks about the persons that live in Vietnam because theysuffer the Impact of the war as hunger, poverty and disease and separation from their families
He also said in his speech [52] that
True compassion is more than giving alms to a beggar can see that anedifice that produces beggars needs restructuring. [...] From Vietnam to South Africa through Latin America, the United States is on the wrong side of the world revolution.
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