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. ♪ [music break] amy: mahalia jackson, "take my hand, precious lord," dr. martin luther king jr.'favorite song. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman, as we return to dr. martin luther king's speech "beyond vietnam." he gave this speech april 4, 1967, a year to the day before he was assassinated. he was speaking at riverside church in new york. >> these are revolutionary times. all over the globe men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression, and out of the wombs of a frail world, new systems of justice and equality are being born. the shirtless and barefoot people of the land are rising up as never before. "the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light." we in the west must support these revolutions. it is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch anti-revolutionaries. this has driven many to feel that only marxis