Dr King Speaks Out Against Violence

"King preached the social gospel by issuing a challenge to America's moral conscience and encouraging the nation to act in the interest of all of its citizens. . . King declared that "our sin is even greater" in "our collective lives". Drawing examples from the sociopolitical arena, he lamented that Western civilization had "trampled over one billion six hundred million of your colored brothers in Africa and Asia," while America had deviated from its promises of equality in the Declaration of Independence . . ."