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, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
— Martin Luther King Jr. Modern

Civil rights leader

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Speech, 'Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence'

Date / Period

1967

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm

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