Today is Martin Luther King Day in the USA. He remains one of the most inspiring people for those who seek justice, and his words carry as much weight today as they did half a century ago.
“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we 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, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
At his funeral, Mahalia Jackson sang the same song, ‘Precious Lord, Take My Hand’ that she had sung in front of 250,000 people on the same platform where MLK Jr gave his I have a dream speech. It’s pretty easy to understand why he said that this was his favourite song.