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SILENCE Is Betrayal

from *VOICES OF OUR LIVES, volume 1 by Steve Shapiro

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"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. delivered an address entitled “Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence.” These words would profoundly influence the course of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. He was taking a public stance against the war that would place him in opposition to his government in Washington. He had agonized over this decision. In “this dreadful conflict,” he admitted, there is always a danger of being “mesmerized by uncertainty,” but he would not let the uncertainty quiet his voice: “We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.”

Now fifty years later we are in darker times and this speech still resonates. The military industrial intelligence complex, the national security state, the corporations and their media are all more entrenched. We find ourselves living inside a monster to which we have a parasitic relationship, a monster which progressively threatens the environment upon which life on our planet depends.

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from *VOICES OF OUR LIVES, volume 1, released May 26, 2017

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Steve Shapiro Oakland, California

Steve Shapiro has composed music for hundreds of radio and TV commercials, documentary films, infomercials and other TV programs. He was the music director at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, which produced hundreds of award-winning educational films and recordings. He has a BA in Music from Brown University and an MA in Music from the Manhattan School of Music. ... more

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