Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 07:33:36 -0800
From: Steve Black <sdblack-AT-telus.net>
Subject: Re: liberation of iraq


I came across thus quote in another email group I belong to and I 
also sought more info on it.
The  quote came from...
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go From Here, Beacon Press,
- 1989.  p. 151

This bibliographic information is all I have.

Steve Black


>Excellent quote.  It kind of reminds me of Eisenhower's warnings about the
>future military industry that was so preminiscient.
>Do you have a reference (or context) for it?
>Thanks,
>Jaclyn
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steve Black" <sdblack-AT-telus.net>
>To: <postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
>Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 6:21 PM
>Subject: RE: liberation of iraq
>
>
>>  I came across a quote that is over three decades old - yet looks like
>>  it was spoken with out time in mind - its almost spooky how
>>  appropriate it is...
>>
>>  "In the days ahead we must not consider it unpatriotic to raise
>>  certain basic questions about our national character. We must begin
>>  to ask, 'Why are there forty million poor people in a nation
>>  overflowing with such unbelievable affluence? Why has our nation
>>  placed itself in the position of being God's military agent on
>>  earth...? Why have we substituted the arrogant undertaking of
>>  policing the whole world for the high task of putting our own house
>>  in order?'"
>>
>  > Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
>  >

-- 
Steve Black
Vancouver School of Theology
Vancouver, BC
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The lion and the calf shall lie down together
but the calf won't get much sleep.
-Woody Allen


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