MANY LESSONS OF LOVE ARE FORGOTTEN

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, January 17, 1992                   TAG: 9201170538
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-10   EDITION: METRO 
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MANY LESSONS OF LOVE ARE FORGOTTEN
I WOULD like to encourage people to remember the life and wisdom of one of our country's great heroes, Martin Luther King Jr., who set a beautiful example for citizens creating a democratic society.
It is easy to choose to think that the United States needs no further lessons in how to be free and just. It is also easy to choose to understand that we all have many things to learn about our human nature and that we have forgotten many a lesson of love, compassion, spirituality, and dignity and justice for all.
Martin Luther King said: "A nation that continues to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." He was a responsible citizen seeking better ways of communicating the needs of the poor and marginalized. He sought solutions to racism and hatred, inequality and injustice, not through fear and fighting, but through compassion, understanding and diligence in uncompromised negotiation.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," he said. "We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny."
Almost all of the same problems that King worked on are still with us today. Fortunately, many people have committed their time to the needs of this country's people. They know that we must re-evaluate our actions every day; that we must be conscious of how every action affects others and our environment, here and abroad. PERRY CAHILL ROANOKE

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB