{"id":6476,"date":"2023-01-16T13:42:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T18:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=6476"},"modified":"2023-01-16T13:45:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T18:45:20","slug":"honoring-the-radical-dr-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2023\/01\/16\/honoring-the-radical-dr-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring the radical Dr. King"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.cdn.everyaction.com\/images\/van\/AV\/AV001\/1\/38479\/images\/mlk_black-rightbig_horiz_d.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr.\n Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s 1967 speech at Riverside Church \u2014 a year to \nthe day before his assassination \u2014 called for a \u201cradical revolution of \nvalues.\u201d At the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/?emci=006ec4c2-c795-ed11-9d7b-00224832e811&amp;emdi=ea000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&amp;ceid={{ContactsEmailID}}\">Network<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/modjeskaschool\/?emci=006ec4c2-c795-ed11-9d7b-00224832e811&amp;emdi=ea000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&amp;ceid={{ContactsEmailID}}\">Modjeska Simkins School<\/a>, we are working to manifest his vision.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr.  King said, &#8220;I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of  the world revolution, we as a nation must&nbsp;undergo a radical revolution  of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society  to a person-oriented society. When machines and&nbsp;computers, profit  motives, and property rights are considered more important than people,  the&nbsp;giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are  incapable of being conquered.\u201d<strong>\u201cBeyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence,&#8221;<\/strong> considered King&#8217;s most controviersial speech, is worth revisiting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americanrhetoric.com\/speeches\/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm?emci=006ec4c2-c795-ed11-9d7b-00224832e811&amp;emdi=ea000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&amp;ceid={{ContactsEmailID}}\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>&nbsp;takes you to an audio recording and a transcript.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s 1967 speech at Riverside Church \u2014 a year to the day before his assassination \u2014 called for a \u201cradical revolution of values.\u201d At the Network and the Modjeska Simkins School, we are working to manifest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2023\/01\/16\/honoring-the-radical-dr-king\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-network-newsevents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6480,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions\/6480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}