Martin Luther King's "The World House", explains different views of the world from different people's perspective. Martin Luther King was an African American who was known as a leader of the Civil Rights movement. Dr. King wanted peace for blacks and whites, as well as international societies that fought against each other. He wanted everyone to come together as a nation and live with each other in peace. "The World House" is important because of the change Dr. Martin Luther King caused in society, such as the Civil Right Movement and the Peace Movement. Dr. King wanted to change society so that it would bring the nation together. He wanted everyone to come together, he wanted peace and equality for the world, and he wanted to help change America in every way he could. According to the article Fighting For Equal Rights, "While his goal was racial equality, King plotted out a series of smaller objectives that involved local grassroots campaigns for equal rights for African Americans" ("Fighting For Equal rights" 1). Throughout the grass root campaign, Dr. King started to change the idea of equality at the local level; however, he wanted to have peace internationally. During this time period, the Vietnam War brought up a lot questions about peace and equality as people started to go against the war. Martin Luther King gave "The World House" speech in respond to the Vietnam War and support of the Civil Right Movement and the Peace Movement. 

Dr. King wanted the society to come together. He expressed many feelings towards the Vietnam War that was going on in 1963. The Vietnam War was a high casualty war because the soldier's views had changed from fighting for territory to fighting to kill ("Vietnam War History"). Dr. King wanted all the soldiers to overcome a problem with North and South Vietnam by bringing peace, but not with violence. The Vietnam War was the leading problem in the world that explains the reason for "The World House" speech. During the Vietnam War communism was one of the main factors to the start of the war, which is reflected by Martin Luther King statement, "Nothing provides the communists with a better climate for expansion  with racism and exploitation throughout the world" (King 288). Dr. King compares racism with communism, to relate the Vietnam War to the Civil Rights Movement.  Racism is showed within the roots of our world as Dr. King says, "  the only people who do not share in abundance of western technology are colored people" (King 289). This quote from Dr. King explains that the whites are credited for the accomplishment in society; the blacks are not allowed to work or help the world with new technology because of the color of their skin. 

Dr. King is responding to the Vietnam War and trying to get people to believe in world peace, by non-violent movements. The peace movement in the Vietnam War Protest started small on college campuses and worked to become a national movement just like the Civil Rights movement that started small and became national. Dr. King's main idea for the civil rights movement was equality, which is supported when he said;  "civil rights activists had been fighting these laws and social customs to secure equality for all Americans" ("Martin Luther King" 1). He wanted every person to have the same amount of freedom in the world and for everyone to do things together. Racism caused segregation, which led to whites and the blacks drinking from different water fountains, playing different sports, and going to different schools. For example, "blacks were still forced to use separate public utilities and schools from the superior ones reserved for whites" ("Fighting For Equal rights" 1). While racism was still in effect, most black people were killed or tortured, some of the African Americans died from starvation, for example Martin Luther King mentions,  "Two-thirds of the peoples of the world go to bed hungry at night" (King 290).

Dr. King was against the Vietnam War, which he publicly says that he opposes on moral grounds and he is condemning the number of African American casualties ("Vietnam War"). Dr. King mentions, "We are inevitably our brother's keeper because we are our brother's brother." (King 292), the point is in today's society is a person does not have faith because of the unfair opportunities that are displayed for different people. The draft in the Vietnam War took away 40,000 young men each month leading to unfair opportunities for the people who were drafted. Dr. Kings says, "Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed" (King 292) every race cooperates peacefully with one another, then it would be a stronger nation, therefore, the war was unnecessary because it caused the nation to turn their backs on each other. 

It does not matter which race or if you are poor or rich, but all races help other races in a specific way and the rich and the poor help each other in a specific way. For example Dr. King states, "The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich" (King 292). Dr. King argued that the nation needs to find a way to relate so that we will continue stop fighting and grow as a nation, just as Dr. King says, "Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly" (King 292). Dr. King only wanted what was right for our society and for the people who were treated unfairly. He wanted all protests to be non-violent; therefore, he believed that it could be a change in society through peace.  Dr. King was the leader of the non-violent movement and influenced society by getting people to believe in peaceful protest. During the Civil Rights Movement, "Police forces didn't hesitate to use violence against demonstrators and protestors, but in the face of their quiet civil resistance, the overblown physical techniques of force and brutality lost their power" ("How Did Martin"1). In Martin Luther King's speech "The World House," he influenced people to joining the Peace Movement of the Civil Right Movement, which lead to the passing of the Civil Rights Act. 

Dr. King took the Peace Movement of Civil Rights and started it local then moves to national and then international. He inspired many international countries to fight injustice and to start a protest on their own that was involved; while others were joining the movement it also brought attention to the racial persecution in South Africa ("How Did Martin"1). The idea of peaceful movements to end the racial injustice started to grow internationally. Dr. King started his speech locally and it had begun to spread very quickly. More people began to interact with what Dr. King had planned for them; then it became into a bigger movement that involved blacks and whites that wanted peace and equality.

"The World House" speech, wanted for Americans and the international people to be treated equally. Therefore, the Vietnam War brought a lot of attention to the racial persecution locally and internationally. Martin Luther King gave "The World House" speech in respond to the Vietnam War and support of the Civil Right Movement and the Peace Movement.   This speech changed people's minds during the Civil Rights Movement to fight for the rights of equality and to get rid of the racial injustices. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speech start from a grassroots campaign at a local level then rapidly grew nationally to the Civil Rights Movement then to an international level; which the united nations were trying to figure out how deal with. Meanwhile, while Dr. King was making changes everyone soon began to start to listen to him. He did what no one would ever think could happen and changed the entire world. Overall, the change in society became big for the racial injustices in states. However, Dr. King's dream became one of the biggest speeches that changed the mind of all races about the violence in the war. 

