I was listening to Progressive Talk Radio during my hideous commute yesterday when the host began playing excerpts of speeches by Martin Luther King. I wish more of his work had become the fabric of our consciousness:
“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. 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, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered.”
— Martin Luther King sermon on his opposition to the Vietnam War, April 30. 1967
That first image is just perfect.