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Where 4 Art Thou?

Can you imagine speaking in such a stilted language your entire life? I've always made a connection between the energy of a language and the overall vibrance of the people speaking that language.

Produce the Note

This CNN Live Report features an Ohio councilwoman who urges residents to stay in their home--even if they've been foreclosed on. Find out how and why you might be able to do the same.

Dr. King Speaks: In His Own Words

 

"Since I am a preacher by calling, I suppose it is not surprising that I have seven major reasons for bringing Vietnam into the field of my moral vision. There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have been waging in America. A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor--both black and white--through the poverty program. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. Then came the buildup in Vietnam, and I watched this program broken and eviscerated, as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So, I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.