Sylvie Laurent, historian: “The dissent and critical thinking of Martin Luther King are more saving than ever, while the Middle East is bending under American fire”

The specialist on the United States believes, in a column in “Le Monde”, that we must remember Reverend King's 1967 speech, delivered in the middle of the Vietnam War, in which he considered that “a nation which continues to spend more money on military defense than on social programs is approaching spiritual death”.