Martin Luther King Jr’s speech on Vietnam rang very true when I read it recently. It put me back about how similar today is to nearly 60 years ago.
It is with such activity in mind that the words of the late John F. Kennedy come back to haunt us. Five years ago he said, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” 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 investments. 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…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, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
Martin Luther King Jr’s speech on Vietnam rang very true when I read it recently. It put me back about how similar today is to nearly 60 years ago.
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm