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"A true revolution
of values will lay hands 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.
"America,
the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead
the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing except
a tragic death wish to prevent us from reordering our priorities
so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit
of war. There is nothing to keep us from molding a recalcitrant
status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into
a brotherhood."
Dr. King, April 4, 1967
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