(...) Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
Bem, eu não sei o que acontecerá agora. Teremos alguns dias difíceis. Mas, para mim, isso não importa. Porque eu estive no cimo da montanha. E não me importo. Como todos, gostaria de ter uma vida longa. Por que não? Mas não estou preocupado com isso agora. Só quero fazer a vontade de Deus. E Ele permitiu que eu subisse a montanha. E eu vi lá de cima. E vi a terra prometida. Talvez não vos acompanhe até lá. Mas, quero que saibam esta noite que nós, como povo, chegaremos à terra prometida. E estou feliz esta noite. Nada me preocupa. Não temo nenhum homem. Os meus olhos viram a glória da chegada do Senhor.
Agora é comparar este texto com a letra da canção:
Martin Luther King pronunciou este discurso, pleno de actualidade, no dia 4 de Abril de 1967. Foi assassinado exactamente um ano depois em Memphis, Tennessee.
Apresenta-se a seguir os excertos do discurso que aparecem no final do filme War Made Easy:
«(…)1."A time comes when silence is betrayal." And that time has come for us(...)
2.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.(…)
3.(…)and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government.(...)
4.What do they think as we test out our latest weapons on them, just as the Germans tested out new medicine and new tortures in the concentration camps of Europe?(…)
5.Now there is little left to build on, save bitterness.(...)
6.(...) we are met by a deep but understandable mistrust. To speak for them is to explain this lack of confidence in Western words, and especially their distrust of American intentions now.(…)
10.Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now.(...)
11.I speak as one who loves America, to the leaders of our own nation: The great initiative in this war is ours; the initiative to stop it must be ours.(…)
7.The world now demands a maturity of America that we may not be able to achieve.(...)
8. "This way of settling differences is not just."(…)
9.A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.(…)»
Estes excertos foram escolhidos para poderem ser utilizados no filme (foram excluídas todas as referências ao Vietnam) e podem ser, até com maior propriedade, aplicados à realidade actual.
By 1967, King had become the country's most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered -- King called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."
Time magazine called the speech "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi," and the Washington Post declared that King had "diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people."
