<P> On April 15, 1967, King participated in and spoke at an anti-war march from New York's Central Park to the United Nations organized by the Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam and initiated by its chairman, James Bevel . At the U.N. King also brought up issues of civil rights and the draft . </P> <P> I have not urged a mechanical fusion of the civil rights and peace movements . There are people who have come to see the moral imperative of equality, but who cannot yet see the moral imperative of world brotherhood . I would like to see the fervor of the civil - rights movement imbued into the peace movement to instill it with greater strength . And I believe everyone has a duty to be in both the civil - rights and peace movements . But for those who presently choose but one, I would hope they will finally come to see the moral roots common to both . </P> <P> Seeing an opportunity to unite civil rights activists and anti-war activists, Bevel convinced King to become even more active in the anti-war effort . Despite his growing public opposition towards the Vietnam War, King was also not fond of the hippie culture which developed from the anti-war movement . In his 1967 Massey Lecture, King stated: </P> <P> The importance of the hippies is not in their unconventional behavior, but in the fact that hundreds of thousands of young people, in turning to a flight from reality, are expressing a profoundly discrediting view on the society they emerge from . </P>

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