<p>In His Own Words:</p>
<p>The Global Vision of Martin Luther King</p>
<p>On the interconnectedness of humanity: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.</p>
<p>On nonviolence: Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.</p>
<p>On peace: Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.</p>
<p>On the limits of science: Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.</p>
<p>On national priorities: A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.</p>
<p>On love: Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.</p>
<p>On racism and war: I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality . . . I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word . . . </p>
<p>On sacrifice and the universal effects of racism: If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.</p>
<p>Happy MLK Day everyone!</p>