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By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:35:00 +0000

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By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:14:42 +0000

Don’t forget King late in his life as he got more radical and was calling for revolutions in the existing economic/power structures. This is from the Beyond Vietnam speech given at the Riverside Baptist Church in Harlem on April 4 1967 (exactly a year before he was assassinated in Memphis)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2564.htm

And two of my favorite quotes:

“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.”

“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.”