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Standing Up For Freedom, Peace and Justice: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

August 2, 2009

$Martin Luther King, Jr. “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.” - The Reverend Dr. King $1967$ $Fight Back! News$$

For this year’s holiday honoring Dr. King, we are printing 3 commentaries on King’s political thinking that are important for understanding today’s situation – Fight Back! editors.