When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism, are incapable of being conquered. A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.
from “A Time to Break Silence”, King’s address given on this day, April 4th in 1967 at the Riverside Church in New York City.

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