Prominent #CivilRights leaders and #activists would come out against the US war on #Vietnam as the decade wore on. In 1967, #MartinLutherKingJr. told the Harlem Riverside Church congregation that:

“It would be very inconsistent for me to teach and preach nonviolence in this situation and then applaud violence when thousands of thousands of people, both adults and children, are being maimed and mutilated and many killed in this way.”

Fewer than two weeks later, King would lead a 125,000-person #protest against the war.

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