Martin Luther King Jr addresses a union meeting in Chicago, Illinois, 1960sMLK would have been 91 th
Martin Luther King Jr addresses a union meeting in Chicago, Illinois, 1960sMLK would have been 91 this year if he hadn’t been assassinated; this isn’t “ancient” history. “I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective – the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed matter: the guaranteed income… 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.”– Where do We Go from Here?, 1967“If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.” - from a speech giving support for the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike on March 18th, 1968, two weeks before he was assassinated. -- source link
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