MLK Quote

"Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child 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 speakfor the poor in America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam. Ispeak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to theleaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours." -Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1967.

I went and googled famous quotes said by MLK and I saw this one. Whenever I think of MLK I associate him with civil rights and fighting for all of the African Americans. But this quote is about other people from another country. This just goes to show that MLK was not just worried about his problems but the problems of other human beings. This quote is powerful, he is associating himself as a brother to those people, he is related to them by the means that God created them. I just haven't seen that kind of connection besides in a church setting. Looking at this, its different from the original "I have a dream", which in itself is a powerful quote, but this one we really don't learn about. We learn that MLK was a fighter for the African community, but it seems that he fought for all races as well.