Martin Luther King, Jr.

". . . I knew that I could never again raise my voice agains the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. . . . for the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent."

-Martin Luther King, Jr., April, 1967, Riverside Church, New York

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Published on January 16, 2003 1:09 AM.

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