Now, it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war - Martin Luther King Jr

To me the relationship of this ministry to the making of peace is so obvious that I sometimes marvel at those who ask me why I am speaking against the war. – Martin Luther King Jr

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. - Martin Luther King Jr

I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today, my own government. - Martin Luther King Jr

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism. - Martin Luther King Jr

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear annihilation. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. - Martin Luther King Jr

Parading kids with military attires on the MLK parade is a disgrace to the memory of Martin Luther King. MLK has spoken many times on the evil of war and especially about the Vietnam War. If he were alive, he would be disgusted, and he would have never allowed any military (especially children) to participate in the march.

Except for having the military and also some evil corporations like COCA COLA, The Parade was the Bomb. Hundreds of activists showed up to protest the police, the war, and corporate America.

Can you imagine what King would say about the invasion and occupation of Iraq if he were alive today? Or about Bush's goonball plans to blast off for Mars and set up a military outpost on the Moon? Or about cutting aid to education? Or lowering taxes on the rich while claiming at the same time that the country can't afford low-cost higher education? Or about the deindustrialization of the country? Or about cutting off welfare mothers from ADFC? Or forcing retirees to choose between eating and having their prescriptions filled? Or about an economic draft that puts the poor into the military if they want to avoid unemployment or want to go to college while the offspring of the wealthy lounge around fraternity houses at USC? Or about privatizing Social Security? Or about glorifying capitalism and greed? Or about pumping billions into aerospace companies while hospitals close down or, in some cases, have people who can't afford their outrageous bills arrested? Or about slimeball, filthy rich corporate executives who brag to shareholders about having one worker do the work of two while the unemployed stand on streetcorners and stressed out workers show up at psyciatric clinics for anxiety medication? Or about high school guidance counsellers who advise young people to elist in the Marine Corps or tell them that the most they can expect from life is to have a cubicle in some life-destroying corporation, wasting their lives as flunkies of the rich? No wonder they got rid of him.

This was a GREAT series of photos.

You've got me daydreaming.

I think he'd be sympathetic to the situation these kids find themselves in. Maybe they could march, but would request that they not bring their weapons, or appear in uniform.

Then, maybe bring along a conscientous objector as a speaker. That would have been pretty bold.