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Similarly, King's portrayal of men, regardless of race, "in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village," emphasized the war's catastrophic & inhumane nature.

When he asserted that all this brutality was carried out in the name of America, he stirred the audience's anger, compelling them to break their silence about the injustice of the war.

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Image: Buddhist monks and women pull at a barbed-wire barricade, Saigon, Giac Minh Pagoda, July 27, 1963.