Martin Luther King

"A true revolution of values will lay hands 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 people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love." MLK
But at this moment in history, being decent in our private lives is not enough. There is too much at stake, and too little time to correct the course. We face crises on all fronts: Political, economic, cultural, and most dramatically, ecological. We cannot know how much time is left before destructive forces set in motion cannot be turned back. We should be scared, and that fear should motivate us. MLK
Having the confidence to listen to your drummer and take your own beaten path is the ultimate achievement for free thinking people. While I have a dream is noted, the nightmare vision is oft buried in the memory hole. But people cooperating with each other, respecting knowledge when it comes with wisdom, and spending time on things worthwhile were all themes of King, Ghandi and Pauling. Self governance requires holding up standards and behaving in such a manner as to demonstrate the belief. People like to remember the King myth - they forget that his ethics were strong, but his morals were uncommon. It would be nice to read the unfiltered history of the 1950s and 1960s, to understand the basis for growing up in King's amerika. dl
The times they are a changin. BD