THE 60’S, PEACE AND LOVE………AND WAR

Born	May 19, 1925 North Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Died	February 21, 1965 (aged 39) New York, New York, USA

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it's wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it's wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.

Speech, New York City (12 December 1964)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

from the “I have a dream speech”

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 speak for the poor of America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home, and death and corruption in Vietnam. […]The great initiative in this war is ours; the initiative to stop it must be ours.

4 April 1967- New York