Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King, Jr.,
1929 - 1968
"The curse of poverty has no justification
in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each
other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The
time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty."---Martin
Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.
"When we ask Negroes to abide by the law,
let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law in the ghettos. Day in and day out he violates welfare laws to
deprive the poor of their meager allotments; he flagrantly violates building codes and regulations; his police make a mockery
of law; he violates laws on equal employment and education and the provisions of civil services. The slums are the handiwork
of a vicious system of the white society; Negroes live in them, but they do not make them, any more than a prisoner makes
a prison."--
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
The Trumpet of Conscience, 1967.
Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I Have a Dream"--- Martin Luther King, 1929 - 1968
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