Thursday, May 28, 2015

Martin Luther King, Jr.: A True Revolution Of Values

A little girl points out of the window of her dilapidated home in one of the states of America's Gulf Coast*

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere... A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. 

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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*Liss's photographers have travelled around the country – shooting 
everywhere from California to New York, and Minnesota to Texas – 
to expose poverty in the US.

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