Has anybody here seen my old friend Martin? Can you tell me where he's gone?

This speech (in many ways his greatest speech - my opinion -) was given on my 13th birthday. I, as a young teen, heard it shortly after on a Public Broadcasting Network. I remember being both shocked and thrilled, and amazed. It made a big impact on me. Periodically, I listen to the recording, or re-read the transcript, and still remain amazed. His words are as relevant today as they were then. Sadly, his words also serve as a stark reminder that things haven't really changed all that much in the 46 years since he first spoke them.

Social Activism Sound Recording Project Martin Luther King, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam" April 30, 1967, Riverside Church, New York

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Now, let me make it clear in the beginning, that I see this war as an unjust, evil, and futile war. I preach to you