When I’m frustrated by individuals who fail to take positive actions to improve society, I reread Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail.” “… time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively…
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Prescient
It’s remarkable that Martin Luther King Jr. said this nearly 50 years ago: “When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” It sounds like he’s talking about what’s happening in the U.S. today. And…