Remembering the words of Dr King from roughly this week over 50 years ago, from his "Beyond Vietnam" sermon...
"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.
A true revolution of values will soon
cause us to question
the fairness and justice
of many of our past and present policies.
On the one hand
we are called to play the Good Samaritan
on life’s roadside;
but that will be only an initial act.
One day we must come to see that the
whole Jericho road must be transformed
so that men and women will not be
constantly beaten and robbed
as they make their journey on life’s highway."
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Timely words.
A Poor People's Campaign is needed, still, to change systems that fail the so-called "least of these."
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Please remember, the next time you vote (which I hope is post-pandemic, not today, as in Wisconsin) that the party that claims to be ‘Pro-life’ went all the way to the Supreme Court to overturn the governor's reasonable order to move an election so that people weren't exposed to a deadly virus.
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