| Global by Speaking |
| "We proudly proclaim that three-fourths of the
peoples of the world are colored . . . God is not
interested merely in freeing black men and brown men and
yellow men, but God is interested in freeing the whole
human race." -Martin Luther King, Jr. 17 May 1957, Washington, D.C. |
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Many people at the time of the Civil Rights Movement thought that the African-Americans were attempting to get back at the white men for oppressing them so long. But that was not the point, Martin Luther King said. He told them, "We must not seek to use our emerging freedom and our growing power to do the same thing to the white minority that has been done to us for so many centuries." King not only thought of the African-Americans, but he thought of everyone. He thought of the whole world and how some people were not being treated with equality. He also thought of the "freedom and independence as it [was unfolding] in Asia and Africa" and hoped that all the peoples of the earth would one day be freed. King also had firm beliefs about the Vietnam War. He gave many speeches on the United States's involvement in the war and how unjust the war was. |
| He wanted everyone to be able to live in harmony, despite differnces in skin color, religious beliefs, and nationality. He believed that when the day came that everyone was able to live in peace and harmony and accept each other for who they were, the whole human race would be freed. |
