The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war.

Now I've chosen to preach about the war in Vietnam today because I agree with Dante:

that the hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis,
maintain their neutrality.

There comes the time when silence is betrayal.

The truth of these words is beyond doubt, but the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one.

Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war.

Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom.

[Nonetheless]

there has never been such a monumental dissent during a war by the American people.

Polls reveal that almost 15 million Americans explicitly oppose the war in Vietnam.

Additional millions cannot bring themselves around to support it.

This reveals that millions have chosen to move
beyond the prophesying of smooth patriotism to the high grounds of firm dissent,
based upon the mandates of conscience and the reading of history.