Monday, January 25, 2010

Letter sent to Ash Citizen Times 010910

Words of wisdom from Martin Luther King, Jr: 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.”


Here at home, we do not take care of the poor; instead we take care of the rich. We do not take care of our sick, our homeless, our educational systems. Instead, we spend trillions on making war, building thousands of military bases on foreign soil, and destroying other parts of the world for assorted made up reasons.


As Martin Luther King Jr. said: “Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now.” And he is correct – continuing on this path that will one day lead to our own self-destruction. We must change course.



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