Comparisons with Other Countries
Rethinking Security and Safety
Rethinking Security and Safety
Billions of federal tax dollars are appropriated to a war machine that enriches weapons manufacturers at the cost of providing benefits that people in every other advanced country enjoy.
We need to change spending priorities to fund programs that will truly make our residents safer and our country stronger.
A nation that continues, years after year, to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
From "Beyond Vietnam," a speech delivered at Riverside Church on April 4, 1967
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. condemned the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism, in his speech, Beyond Vietnam.