The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King has been made less challenging in death than he was in life, so we as a nation can pretend that we all recognized him as a prophet and supported his movement. Here are ten of this less frequently quoted remarks, that put some bite back into his criticism of our country’s preoccupations.
This is #9:
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approach spiritual death.”