"For some, the fact that Nhat Hanh was not a partisan for either North or South Vietnam must surely have been lost in the seeming enormity of King making a joint statement with a representative of a country at war with the United States."

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7/7 Martin Luther King, Jr. - Thich Nhat Hanh 1966 joint statement

"This brief statement of mutuality and solidarity bursts with meaning; in it, deaths that had been conceived of as suicides are redefined as martyrs’ deaths. Further, common cause is made between those in the Vietnamese peace movement and Black civil rights activists." Martin Luther King, Jr. - Thich Nhat Hanh 1966 joint statement

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"We join in the plea, written June 1, 1965, by Thich Nhat Hanh in a letter to Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Do not kill man, even in man’s name. Please kill the real enemies of man which are present everywhere, in our very hearts and minds.’”

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5/7 Martin Luther King, Jr. - Thich Nhat Hanh 1966 joint statement

"And we believe that only in a world of peace can the work of construction, of building good societies everywhere, go forward."

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4/7 Martin Luther King, Jr. - Thich Nhat Hanh 1966 joint statement

"We also believe that the struggles for equality and freedom in Birmingham, Selma and Chicago, as in Hue, Danang and Saigon, are aimed not at the domination of one people by another. They are aimed at self-determination, peaceful social change, and a better life for all human beings."

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3/7 Martin Luther King, Jr. - Thich Nhat Hanh 1966 joint statement

"The enemies of those struggling for freedom and democracy are not man. They are discrimination, dictatorship, greed, hatred and violence, which lie within the heart of man. These are the real enemies of man—not man himself."

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2/7 Martin Luther King, Jr. - Thich Nhat Hanh 1966 joint statement

Martin Luther King, Jr. - Thich Nhat Hanh 1966 joint statement:

“We believe that the Buddhists who have sacrificed themselves, like the martyrs of the civil rights movement, do not aim at the injury of the oppressors but only at changing their policies."

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