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The Cancer of Militarism: JROTC March in MLK Day Parade in LA

by a Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2004 at 9:22 PM

There is no way one can reconcile these images of the JROTC marching in today’s Martin Luther King Day parade in Los Angeles with the philosophy and lifework of Dr. King

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Now, it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war - Martin Luther King Jr
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by a Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2004 at 9:22 PM

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To me the relationship of this ministry to the making of peace is so obvious that I sometimes marvel at those who ask me why I am speaking against the war. – Martin Luther King Jr
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by a Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2004 at 9:22 PM

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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 death. - Martin Luther King Jr
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I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today, my own government. - Martin Luther King Jr
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Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism. - Martin Luther King Jr
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I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear annihilation. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. - Martin Luther King Jr
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Kids in Military Fatigues with Fake Rifles Marcus Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004 at 6:58 AM
MLK Meyer London Thursday, Jan. 22, 2004 at 10:29 AM
hmmm... mebbe not. more rational Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2005 at 5:15 AM
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