Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as His divine messianic force to be -- a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with judgment, and it seems that I can hear God saying to America: “You are too arrogant! If you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power"
http://www.radioproject.org/sound/King10.mp3
From "Beyond Vietnam": I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/autobiography/chp_30.htm
From "The Drum Major Instinct": Nations are caught up with the drum major instinct. "I must be first." "I must be supreme." "Our nation must rule the world." And I am sad to say that the nation in which we live is the supreme culprit.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/sermons/680204.000_Drum_Major_In stinct.html
From "The Most Durable Power": If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in your struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/sermons/561104.000_Paul's_letter_to_American_Christians.html
Hypocrisy in America
I'm 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....When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered....
From "Where Do We Go From Here?": And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and it will have to use its military might to protect them.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/speeches/Where_do_we_go_from_her e.html
From "The Casualties of the War in Vietnam": While the anti-poverty program is cautiously initiated, zealously supervised and valuated for immediate results, billions are liberally expended for this ill-considered war.... Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war.... Nothing can be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the vicious effort to silence dissenters.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/speeches/unpub/670225-001_The_Ca sualties_of_the_War_in_Vietnam.htm
From "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution": There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right. I believe today that there is a need for all people of goodwill to come with a massive act of conscience and say in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "We ain't goin' study war no more."
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publi
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http://www.radioproject.org/sound/King10.mp3
From "Beyond Vietnam": I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/autobiography/chp_30.htm
From "The Drum Major Instinct": Nations are caught up with the drum major instinct. "I must be first." "I must be supreme." "Our nation must rule the world." And I am sad to say that the nation in which we live is the supreme culprit.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/sermons/680204.000_Drum_Major_In stinct.html
From "The Most Durable Power": If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in your struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/sermons/561104.000_Paul's_letter_to_American_Christians.html
Hypocrisy in America
I'm 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....When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered....
From "Where Do We Go From Here?": And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and it will have to use its military might to protect them.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/speeches/Where_do_we_go_from_her e.html
From "The Casualties of the War in Vietnam": While the anti-poverty program is cautiously initiated, zealously supervised and valuated for immediate results, billions are liberally expended for this ill-considered war.... Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war.... Nothing can be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the vicious effort to silence dissenters.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/speeches/unpub/670225-001_The_Ca sualties_of_the_War_in_Vietnam.htm
From "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution": There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right. I believe today that there is a need for all people of goodwill to come with a massive act of conscience and say in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "We ain't goin' study war no more."
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publi
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