History Repeats Itself

On NPR a while back (uh, probably around MLK Day) I caught an excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech “Why I am Opposed to the War in Vietnam.” It was originally given on April 16, 1967 at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. This part stuck out at me:

Don’t let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine messianic force to be. A sort of the policeman of the world. God has a way of standing before the nations with judgment, and it seems like I can hear God saying to America, “you [America] are too arrogant. If you don’t change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power and…place it in the hands of a nation that does not even know my name, be still and know, that I’m God.

Sounds eerily familiar.

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