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That guy had foresight, brilliant. Now, will turk respond directly to your thankfully eloquent answer?ruckman101 wrote:Revolution without violence is possible.
REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: "A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation. It will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of South America and say, "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
A true revolution of values will lay a hand 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 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."
April 4th, 1967
Sadly, a very slow revolution.
neal
So, although I can't disagree with all the bad things pointed to in the speech, my intention is to take off the blanket of negative politics outlined and emphasized in the words, ONLY for a moment, to recognize, the western capitalists ALSO had some benefits for everyone. Not to take away from the quote, to show grey areas exist in negativity. My mom once told me: "I have to go through the negative to get to the positive". I take the words of King to heart. I suggested widening the lens.turk wrote:Dr. King was a brilliant speaker and a revolutionary but I'll take the other side for rhetorical purposes today. What about the good things those capitalist westerners helped to create and achieve? They don't count? It's all or nothing? Think about it and have a peaceful MLK Jr. day.
You lie!turk wrote:I am not aware I injected Breitbart into this thread. But thank you for informing me. I'll go back and re-examine the Breitbart comment I injected. [sarc/off]
I don't believe you.turk wrote:If you mean the Michael Barone article, my apologies for posting that utter trash of commentary on the inequality in America. It never should have been posted. Just despicable.
Not completely.glasseye wrote:completely unexploited by the native inhabitants.
