MLK

Lazy article by the Madison Capital Times editorial staff today, published at CommonDreams.org. They spend several paragraphs reminding us of who Martin Luther King Jr. was, and discussing his comments on war and the United States. They then quote him at length. Lazy way to write an article, but still very good. They quote MLK as having said;

Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken - the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.

I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. ...

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