"Beyond Vietnam" by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1967) "Sit-In Address on the Steps of Sproul Hall" by Mario Savio (1964) Address to the General Assembly of the United Nations in N Beyond Vietnam-A Time to Break Silence by Davon Spexarth - Prezi Speeches and Sounds Declaring “my conscience leaves me no other choice,” King described the war’s deleterious effects on both America’s poor and Vietnamese peasants and insisted that it was morally imperative for the United States to take radical steps to halt the war through nonviolent … Reflection on MLK's "Beyond Vietnam" - Memphis Teacher … Delivered in New York at the height of the Vietnam War in 1967, “Beyond Vietnam” is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s powerful call to America to end the Vietnam War, as well as to change the values that lead to all such morally dubious wars. King begins his argument with... (The entire section contains 1220 words.) Dr. King’s purpose is to make the church leaders he is speaking to aware that the time has come for them to speak out … Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break … A year to the day before his assassination on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Martin Luther King Jr. was in New York City, at the Riverside Church on Manhattan's Upper West Side, talking about Vietnam. beyond vietnam transcript