Martin Luther King, Jr. Uplifting Quotations

A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift, is approaching spiritual death.I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor.

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.