was the address MLK gave one year to the day before he was killed. It was not the first time he spoke against the Vietnam war. But it was the time he connected it with Civil Rights in a way that attacked the policies of LBJ.
The power elite didn't care about King trying to integrate public diners and toilets. They do not use these places. But when MLK spoke about the need to change the economic structure of America by attacking the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism, he was considered too great a threat to national security.
His "I Have a Dream" and the "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speeches are perhaps more famous. But " A Time to Break Silence" is the most important message that this prophet ever delivered.
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