Monday, January 16, 2012

a true revolution of values



"A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look at thousands of working people displaced from their jobs, with reduced income as a result of automation, while the profits of the employers remain intact and say, "This is not just." It will look across the oceans and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia and Africa only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries and say, 'This is not just.' It will take a look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say, 'This is not just.' A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war, 'This way of settling differences is not just. This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.' A nation that continues, year after year, to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."

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