6 Lessons the Green Movement Can Learn From MLK (In His Own Words)

Justice, Commitment, And Solidarity Remain Crucial For All Activists

 1.    Speak Out
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." 

2.    Tap Into the Spiritual
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom ... Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." 

3.     Planet Before Profits
"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered." 

4.    Community Before Technology
"Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood...We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools."

5.     Be Radical, Be Extreme
"When you are right, you cannot be too radical ... The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists." 

6.    Commit
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

Article courtesy of post by Mickey Z – Planet Green.com: http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/green-movement-mlk-words.html?campaign=daily_nl