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Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence", also referred as the Riverside Church speech, [1] is an anti–Vietnam War and pro–social justice speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1967, exactly one year before he was assassinated.
— Martin Luther King Jr., “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” “We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
"Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence" — Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967. The reverend at an anti-Vietnam rally in 1967. New York Daily News Archive/ Getty.
On April 4, 1967, a Tuesday, Martin Luther King Jr. took the pulpit at New York’s Riverside Church, the great Gothic cathedral conceived by John D. Rockefeller Jr., to deliver a speech entitled ...
Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence; S. 1967 State of the Union Address; V. Vive le Québec libre This page was last edited on 24 August 2020, at 03:43 (UTC ...
On April 4, 1967, King gave a much-publicized speech entitled "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" at the Riverside Church in New York, attacking President Johnson for "deadly Western arrogance," declaring that "we are on the side of the wealthy, and the secure, while we create a hell for the poor". [22]
Here are excerpts from some of Martin Luther King most memorable speeches.
Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence; C. Conscience for Change; G. Give Us the Ballot; H. How Long, Not Long; I. I Have a Dream; I've Been to the Mountaintop; P.