Martin Luther King, Jr. on the state of the world, 2007

Yesterday, a 12 year old pointed out to me a fragment from one of the speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. ("The Casualties of the War in Vietnam", 25 February 1967, Los Angeles, CA) that seemed strinkingly accurate in its description of our present world:

There is grave irony in the fact that Hitler could come forth, following the nakedly aggressive expansionist theories he revealed in Mein Kampf, and do it all in the name of peace.
So when I see in this day the leaders of nations similarly talking pace while preparing for war, I take frightful pause.

It is indeed frightening that a 12 year old comes up with such an image of her present world...