The Missing Quote from the King Memorial
"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own Government...I cannot be silent." - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. By Don DeBar While the insiders in Washington parse the meaning of the paraphrased words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. regarding his own epitaph, his true legacy - the one that many believe led to his murder - has been whitewashed from the King Memorial entirely. Speaking at the Riverside Church in New York City, exactly one year - to the day - before he was shot and killed in Memphis, Dr. King announced that he was expanding his focus on America's national shame of segregation to include its international crime of war on the people of Vietnam: "(I)n the ghettoes of the North over the last three years -- especially the last three summers, (a)s I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest co...