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Senator Sanders quotes MLK in call to fund domestic programs over defense

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders says he believes in a strong military but did not believe in throwing more money into the Pentagon than needed at a time when working families are struggling to put food on the table for the kids, 140 million Americans could not afford the basic necessities of life without going into debt, Doctor Martin Luther King warning in 1967 that a nation continuing year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift were approaching spiritual death, his statement still true today.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders says he believes in a strong military but did not believe in throwing more money into the Pentagon than needed at a time when working families are struggling to put food on the table for the kids, 140 million Americans could not afford the basic necessities of life without going into debt, Doctor Martin Luther King warning in 1967 that a nation continuing year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift were approaching spiritual death, his statement still true today.
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November 17, 2021
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