I am convinced that [this] is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. Our involvement in the war has torn up the Geneva Accord. It has strengthened the military-industrial complex; it has strengthened the forces of reaction in our nation.

It has played havoc with our domestic destinies. Not only that, it has put us in a position of appearing to the world as an arrogant nation, so we end up morally and politically isolated in the world.

And here we are ten thousand miles away from home fighting for the so-called freedom of [a] people when we have not even put our own house in order. And we force young black men and young white men to fight and kill in brutal solidarity. Yet when they come back home they can’t hardly live on the same block together.

—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution" (Sermon preached at the National Cathedral, March 31, 1968. His last sermon.)

Yesterday, at a sermon I attended, the minister said that for all the years he’s been reading MLK’s words, he keeps hoping that some day they will seem outdated. That’s my dream, too.

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Monday Morning Warm-Up:

What is your big dream?