A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on militar…

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. ✨ Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. ✨ Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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