As we celebrate the life and achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I am reminded of his prescient and courageous speech against the Vietnam War, delivered at Riverside Church in Manhattan on April 4, 1967, just one year before he was assassinated.

The speech is much too rich in content, analysis, and rhetoric to summarize here, but this segment is particularly appropriate at a time when the country is sinking into recession, poverty rates are on the rise, and we are in the midst of a seemingly endless war that will cost taxpayers and our economy as a whole over $2 trillion at the least:

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