On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, A Few (Prescient) Words
By Däna Wilkinson, Attorney at Law on Jan 19, 2009 in Featured, Foreclosure News
I ran across this quote, which could have been written about the mortgage industry in the last year:
“… [W]e as a nation must 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 computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered… America, the richest, most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values.”
Those words, however, were spoken by Dr. King in 1968, at Riverside Church. It is a lesson that we are still learning, or re-learning. I, for one, have high hopes that it is a lesson that Americans are taking to heart. It may take us a while, but we’ll get there. And thanks, Dr. King, for all you did. For all of us.
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