Quote of the day - 03-29-2012.

Courtesy Brian Terrell -

'The time comes when silence is betrayal,' and Dr. King confessed that he was ‘moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart.’ Condemning the destruction of Vietnam and the wasting of fortunes and lives for an arms race in the face of poverty at home and abroad was not a strategic choice he could make or not, nor is it for us. Dr. King recognized that he and others would find that ‘the calling to speak is often a calling of agony.’ Despite this, he insisted, ‘we must speak.’ No one, Dr. King said, was exempt from the responsibility to protest the war in Vietnam. No one today is exempt from the responsibility to protest the war in Afghanistan- our credibility in all matters and our humanity depend upon this. Silence is betrayal.

For context, read it all here - http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/29-0