A Message of Remembrance from a Facebook Friend

One of my Facebook friends, Roy Eisenstein, posted this today and I would like to share it

Dr. Martin Luther King had a moral vision as well as a dream.

"Perhaps the more tragic recognition of reality took place when it became clear to me that the war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home. It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population. We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem. So we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools. So we watch them in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village, but we realize that they would never live on the same block in Detroit. I could not be silent in the face of such cruel manipulation of the poor." ~ Dr. Martin Luther King at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967, one year before he was killed.