Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.
Rev. King delivered this line in his 1967 speech, “Beyond Vietnam,” in New York. While the speech was aimed at an end to the losing battle America was waging against the Asian nation, it would possibly trouble Rev. King to know many are still trying to recapture that “revolutionary spirit” he talks about in the speech. The Vietnam War was a financial disaster and the loss of lives was countless. King instead wanted a focus on what needed to be handled in America at the time. In that respect, King would have balked at the War In Iraq and the toll it took.
