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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 10:30 amIt's a day late; but these words have never been fresher, more meaningful, more true, more right than right now. We need Martin Luther King, Jr. as much today as we needed him that day in 1967. The quote is merely a sample; text below the cut is his speech, "Beyond Vietnam," quoted in full.
A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
"Beyond Vietnam"
Address delivered to the "Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam" at Riverside Church, April 4th, 1967.
( I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. )
A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
"Beyond Vietnam"
Address delivered to the "Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam" at Riverside Church, April 4th, 1967.
( I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. )
