Reblogged from jackdempseywriter:

For Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday (1/20) of 2014, I'm reposting these excerpts from his last book of essays, The Trumpet of Conscience, 1968---written as he planned a people's occupation of Washington DC.
And I hope you'll consider how horribly King's words of FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO have come true. Under this measure of the time in which I lived, I feel ashamed, that human inequality and the suicidal murder of Mother Earth have only intensified under the walking lie called Profit.