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Throughout this speech, King carefully selected words with negative connotations to firmly associate the Vietnam War with injustice. By labeling Americs as the "greatest purveyor of violence" and accusing it of favoring "massive doses of violence to solve its problems," he effectively cast the U.S. government as the principal wrongdoer.

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Image: Exhausted South Vietnamese soldiers sleep on a US Navy troop carrier taking them back to the provincial capital of Ca Mau in August 1962.