Consider this--The Vietnam peace movement, if it had a theme, was John Lenon's, "All we are saying is give peace a chance." Now, having coopted the language of war into our fiber so deep our "activism" calls us to be warriors as we "rage against the war machine." Just as America cannot kill its way to peace, the peaceable cannot rage their way to peace. If MLK taught us anything it was the central theme love must play. "Lift up your voice and sing till earth and heaven ring!"
Consider this--The Vietnam peace movement, if it had a theme, was John Lenon's, "All we are saying is give peace a chance." Now, having coopted the language of war into our fiber so deep our "activism" calls us to be warriors as we "rage against the war machine." Just as America cannot kill its way to peace, the peaceable cannot rage their way to peace. If MLK taught us anything it was the central theme love must play. "Lift up your voice and sing till earth and heaven ring!"