“It didn’t cost the nation anything to integrate hotels and motels. It didn’t cost the nation a penny to guarantee the right to vote. Now we are in a period where it will cost the nation billions of dollars to get rid of poverty, to get rid of slums, to make quality integrated education a reality. This is where we are now.”
He then connected those two evils to militarism and showed how they all use the same resources.
“It has frustrated our development at home, telling our own underprivileged citizens that we place insatiable military demands above their critical needs.”
Interestingly enough, these three evils live on to this day. Racism still lives within this country. Wages for jobs continue to stay the same, but the cost of living rises daily. We spend millions of dollars on wars, which leaves us nothing to improve the economy and create better opportunities.
