Why not apply? Why not?

The following are excerpts from a speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. one year, to the date, before his assassination. How greatly they apply today.

Dated: 4 April 1967:

"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation 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 than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."

"A true revolution of values will lay hand 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."

"When I speak of love, I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am not speaking of that which is just emotional bosh. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality... Let us hope that this spirit will become the order of the day."

"We must find new ways to speak for peace [in Vietnam] and justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down by the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserves for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight."