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?If we are to get on the right side of the world revolution?we must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines, computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important that people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism, and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered.

A true revolution of values will cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the Good Samaritan. On life?s roadside, that will be only the initial act. One day we must come to see that must see that the whole Jericho road must be changed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make journey on life?s highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrasts of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation.

It will look across the seas and see Individual capitalists of the west, investing huge sums of money Asia, Africa South America, South America, only to take out profits with no concern for the social betterment of the country?

Oh, my friends if there is any one thing that we must see today, that these are revolutionary times. All over the globe, men are revolting against systems of exploitation and oppression. Out of the wounds of a frail world, new systems of justice and equality are being born. The shirtless and barefoot people of the land are rising up, as never before. People who sat in darkness are have seen a great light?. They are saying, unconsciously, as we say in one of our freedom songs, ?Aint gon? let nobody turn me ?round.? It is a sad fact, that because of content complacency, a morbid fear of communism? our proneness to adjust to injustice. The Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world? [have inspired others with revolutionary spirit, to]? go out into a sometimes-hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty racism and militarism. With this powerful commitment, we shall boldly challenge the status quo. We shall boldly challenge unjust mores, and thereby speed up the day, when every valley has been exalted and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The rough places shall be made plain, and the crooked places straight... the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together...

A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis, that our loyalties must become ecumenical, rather than sectional. Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies. This calls for a worldwide fellow ship that lifts neighborly concerns beyond ones tribe, or race, class or nation, because in reality it calls upon all embracing unconditional love for all men. This oft misunderstood and misinterpreted concept so readily dismissed by the Niche?s of the world, as a weakened and cowardly force has now become an absolute necessity. For the survival of mankind. When I speak of love, I?m not speaking of a sentimental and weak response, I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life.
Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door, which leads to ultimate reality. This Hindu, Moslem, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist belief about ultimate reality is beautifully summed up in the first apostle of John, ? Let us Love one another. For god is love."

Every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God, he that loveth not, knoweth not God. For God is love. We love one another, god dwelleth in us. His love is perfected in us. Let me say finally that I oppose the war in Viet Nam because I love America.

I speak out against this war not in anger, but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as the moral example of the world. I speak out against this war because I am disappointed with America. There can be no great disappointment where there is no great love. I am disappointed with our failure to deal positively and forthrightly with the triple evils with racism, economic exploitation and militarism. We are presently moving down a dead end road that can lead to national disaster. America has strayed to the far country of racism and militarism. A home that all too many Americans left was solidly structured idealistically. Its pillars were soundly grounded in the insights of our Judeo-Christian heritage.

All men are made in the image of God, all men are brothers, and all men are created equal. Every man is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth. Every man has rights that are neither conferred by nor derived from the state, they are God given. Out of one blood, God made all men to dwell upon the face of the earth. What a marvelous foundation for any home. What a glorious and healthy place to inhabit. America strayed away. This unnatural excursion has brought only confusion and bewilderment, and left hearts aching with guilt, and minds distorted with irrationality. It is time for all people of conscience should call on America to come back home. Come home, America. Omar Kayak hahahahahas, ? The moving finger hahahahahas, and having writ, moves on?? I call on Washington today. I call on every man and woman of good will, all over America today. I call upon the young men of America who must make a choice today, to take a stand on this issue. Tomorrow may be too late! The book may close? Don?t let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine messianic force to be. A sort of the policeman of the world. God has a way of standing before the nations with judgment, and it seems like I can hear God saying to America, ?you [America] are too arrogant. If you don?t change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power and?place it in the hands of a nation that does not even know my name, be still and know, that I?m God.

And it isn?t easy to stand up for truth and for justice. Sometimes it means being frustrated. When you tell the truth and take a stand, some times, it means you walk the streets, with a burdened heart. Sometimes it means loosing a job, it means being abused, and scarred. It may mean having a 7-8 year old child ask,? Daddy why do yo have to go to jail so much?? I? have? learned that being a follower of Jesus Christ, means taking up the cross. My Bible tells me that Good Friday comes before Easter. For the crown we wear there is a cross that we must bear. Let us bear it, Bear it for truth. Bear it for Justice. Bear it for Peace.

Let us go out this morning, with that determination. I have not lost faith; I?m not in despair because I know that there is a moral order. I haven?t lost faith. Because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. I can still sing ?We Shall Overcome?, because Carlysle was right. No lie can live forever. We shall overcome because William C. Bryant was right, truth crushed to the earth, will rise again. We shall overcome because James Russell Lowell was right. Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne, yet that scaffold sways the future. We shall overcome because the Bible is right, you shall reap what you sow. With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to go out to transform the jangling discord of our world into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to speed up the day when justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream. With this faith, we will be able to speed up the day when the lion and the lamb will lay down together. And every man will sit under his own pine and fig tree and none shall be afraid, because the word of the Lord has spoken.

With this faith, we will be able to speed up the day when all over the world we will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ?Free at Last, Free at Last, thank God, almighty, we?re free at last.? With this faith we will sing it and we?re getting ready to sing it now. Men will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations will not rise up against nations; neither shall they study war any more? I don?t now about you, but I ain?t gon? study war, no more!