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In reply to the discussion: What Martin Luther King had to say about Right to Work 1961! [View all]sheshe2
(83,708 posts)23. We must rapidly begin...we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-or
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.
As that noble bard of yesterday, James Russell Lowell, eloquently stated:
Once to every man and nation comes a moment to decide,
In the strife of truth and Falsehood, for the good or evil side;
Some great cause, Gods new Messiah offering each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever twixt that darkness and that light.
Though the cause of evil prosper, yet tis truth alone is strong
Though her portions be the scaffold, and upon the throne be wrong
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
And if we will only make the right choice, we will be able to transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of peace. If we will make the right choice, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our world into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. If we will but make the right choice, we will be able to speed up the day, all over America and all over the world, when "justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."
Once to every man and nation comes a moment to decide,
In the strife of truth and Falsehood, for the good or evil side;
Some great cause, Gods new Messiah offering each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever twixt that darkness and that light.
Though the cause of evil prosper, yet tis truth alone is strong
Though her portions be the scaffold, and upon the throne be wrong
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
And if we will only make the right choice, we will be able to transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of peace. If we will make the right choice, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our world into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. If we will but make the right choice, we will be able to speed up the day, all over America and all over the world, when "justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."
A deeply moving speech from a very great man! I Thank you.
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Everything he ever said made perfect sense to me then and now. I don't understand how some don't
freshwest
Dec 2012
#12
Thank you Freshwest...as always your posts are eloquent and poignant! I thank you!
sheshe2
Dec 2012
#17
Agent provocateurs disrupting a demonstration by the Sanitation Workers in Memphis...
MinM
Dec 2012
#13
He connected labor with racial equality. Many deny the profound philosopher that he was.
freshwest
Dec 2012
#20
We must rapidly begin...we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-or
sheshe2
Dec 2012
#23
Very deep thinker, one of mankind's sages. A man for all people. We were blessed.
freshwest
Dec 2012
#24