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Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Beyond Vietnam"

"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar...It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needsrestructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individualcapitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say:'This is not just.' It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say: 'This is not just.' The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach othersand nothing to learn from them 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'...A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."