Martin Luther King Jr.: We Must Shift To A Person Oriented Society!

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CREDIT:

Voice: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

DESCRIPTION:

Here is an excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Beyond Vietnam" address, given at New York City’s Riverside Church on Tuesday, April 4th, 1967, a year to the day before he was assassinated.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15th, 1929 – April 4th, 1968) was an American Baptist Minister, Activist, Humanitarian, and leader in the Black American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of Civil Rights using Nonviolent Civil Disobedience based on his Judeo-Christian beliefs

TRANSCRIPT:

"We 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 that people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered."

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION:

"The term 'non-person' has emerged as the most far-reaching and disastrous epithet ever invoked to devalue human life in the womb. When the United Sates Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision (1973) declared that 'the word 'person,' as used in the Fourteenth Amendment, does not include the unborn,' it sounded the legalized death knell for huge numbers of unborn humans." — William Brennan, Ph.D., Professor of Social Work in the Saint Louis University School of Social Work.

Jeremiah 1:5 (ERV)

“Before I made you in your mother’s womb,
I knew you.
Before you were born,
I chose you for a special work.
I chose you to be a prophet to the nations.”