We are now experiencing the coming to the surface of a triple prong sickness ... [that] has been lurking within our body politic from its very beginning ... the sickness of racism, excessive materialism and militarism. the plaque of western civilization. —Martin Luther King, Aug. 31, 1967 We kill the most beautiful among us—anyone, it seems, who reveals the nastier, brutish elements of American society and has the audacity to imagine, demand even, a better path: peace, unity and tolerance. Abraham Lincoln, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King and so many others. This year, marks the 50th anniversary of King´s tragic assassination, and though countless publications will brim with...
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