“A Proper Sense of Priorities”
On Feb. 6, 1968, King delivered an address at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. He urged the audience to look at the things they considered important and consider if they had their values in order.
King asked, “What does it profit a generation, what does it profit a nation to own the whole world of means — televisions, electric lights and automobiles — and lose in the end the soul?”