willingsuspension of disbelief.’

When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people

e must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.

and if we ignore this sobering reality, we will find ourselves organizing "clergy and laymen concerned" committees for the next generation.

I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak of the -- for the poor of America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home, and death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as one who loves America, to the leaders of our own nation:

Soon we would be paying almost the full costs of this tragic attempt at recolonization.

For nine years following 1945 we denied the people of Vietnam the right of independence. For nine years we vigorously supported the French in their abortive effort to recolonize Vietnam.

I wish not to speak with Hanoi and the National Liberation Front, but rather to my fellow Americans.

social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they ask -- and rightly so -- what about Vietnam? They ask if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted.

the Father is deeply concerned especially for his suffering and helpless and outcast children, I come tonight to speak for them.

I speak now not of the soldiers of each side, not of the ideologies of the Liberation Front, not of the junta in Saigon, but simply of the people who have been living under the curse of war for almost three continuous decades now.

For those who ask the question, "Aren't you a civil rights leader?" and thereby mean to exclude me from the movement for peace,

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