— unpredictable thoughts

Dr. King shortly after his bus boy­cott arrest
Alabama Police Mugshot, Feb­ru­ary 22, 1956

This speech by Mar­tin Luther King, Jr. rings true today.

from:
Mar­tin Luther King, Jr.
Beyond Viet­nam — A Time to Break Silence
Deliv­ered 4 April 1967, at a meet­ing of Clergy and Laity Con­cerned at River­side Church in New York City

It is with such activ­ity in mind that the words of the late John F. Kennedy come back to haunt us. Five years ago he said, “Those who make peace­ful rev­o­lu­tion impos­si­ble will make vio­lent rev­o­lu­tion inevitable.” Increas­ingly, by choice or by acci­dent, this is the role our nation has taken, the role of those who make peace­ful rev­o­lu­tion impos­si­ble by refus­ing to give up the priv­i­leges and the plea­sures that come from the immense prof­its of over­seas invest­ments. I am con­vinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world rev­o­lu­tion, we as a nation must undergo a rad­i­cal rev­o­lu­tion of val­ues. We must rapidly begin…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, extreme mate­ri­al­ism, and mil­i­tarism are inca­pable of being conquered.

Full speech click on this line.