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Quote # 1: “to take pro?ts out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries.”3 To the chagrin of most of his inner circle who feared that King would be derided as an unpatriotic leftist or a “Vietnik,” King chose to speak out because he believed that issues of world peace and civil rights were indivisible, and he decried how the Vietnam War had eviscerated the War on Poverty “as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war.”4This quote shows that he cared more about the effect the war had on poverty and the people than he did about the political aspects. He belived that it offerd no bennifit for any countries. and found it important to speak up against.Quote # 2 : Other studies of bottom-up social history have underscored another reason for the civil rights movement’s reluctance to criticize the Vietnam War: the presence of thousands of African American soldiers ?ghting and dying in South-East Asia in the ?rst war fought by ostensibly integrated armed forces.