All Life Is Interrelated

 All Life Is Interrelated. 

Militarism, Economic Injustice, and Racism 

Are Also Inextricably Intertwined.

 

From Dr. King's Christmas Sermon, 1967: 

"It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied together into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. We are made to live together because of the interrelated structure of reality . . . Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality. We aren’t going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality. " -- 

 

Dr. King was assassinated less than 4 months after that sermon, after being marginalized in the last year of his life for naming militarism, economic injustice, and racism as inextricably intertwined.

 

— Betsy Anjani Toll