"'God didn't call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war. . . . And we are criminals in that war. We've committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I'm going to continue to say it. And we won't stop it because of our pride and our arrogance as a nation. But God has a way of even putting nations in their place.'"
In The Washington Post, E. J. Dionne, Jr., recalls the fiery rhetoric of an anti-war African-American minister: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friday, March 21, 2008
"I'll Rise Up and Break the Backbone of Your Power"
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