A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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