Powerful MLK Flash from CodePink

In honor of the upcoming
Martin Luther King
holiday on January 17,
CodePink has produced an inspiring
internet flash movie
that reveals just how out-of-sync the White House is with Dr. King's message of peace and love.

http://www.bushflash.com/mlk2005.html


Dr. King was not only a champion for civil rights, but also a stalwart defender of peace and social justice. The flash movie features excerpts from Dr. King's April 4, 1967 speech at Riverside Church in New York City and overlays his words with images from the Vietnam War and the current Iraq War. A loop of a Tupac Shakur song provides a musical background. Over images of war abroad and poverty at home, Dr. King's voice tells viewers:"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."

from:
http://www.codepinkalert.org

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BEYOND VIETNAM
April 4, 1967, Riverside Church, NYC

read or listen:
http://www.aavw.org/special_features/speeches_speech_king01.html
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies
hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction....The chain reaction
of evil--hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars--must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of
annihilation.

-Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength To Love, 1963.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values
and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false
and the false with the true.

-Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength To Love, 1963.

I am aware that there are many who wince at a distinction between property and persons--who hold both sacrosanct. My views are not so rigid. A life is sacred. Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and
respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on; it is not man.

-Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1967.


The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

-Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.