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EVERYDAY IS MLK DAY: “Where do we go from Here: Chaos or Community”.
“The three evils of society, the giant triplets of racism, economic exploitation and militarism.”
“I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.”
“It is no longer a choice between violence and non-violence; it is either non-violence or non-existence.”
“As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
“God never intended for one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.”
“I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.”
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
“A second evil which plagues the modern world is that of poverty. Like a monstrous octopus, it projects its nagging, prehensile tentacles in lands and villages all over the world. Almost two-thirds of the peoples of the world go to bed hungry at night. They are…