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It is not our aim to disparage Metaxas but to honor Dr. King by letting him speak for himself.
“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs re-structuring.” (Dr. King)
“After listening to the young protesters I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today—my own government.”
“A few years ago there was a shining moment. A promise of hope for the poor, black and white, through the Poverty Program. Then came the war and I watched the program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad.” Dr. King, April 4, ‘67
“Any religion which professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the social and economic conditions that scar the soul is a spiritually moribund religion only waiting for the day to be buried.” Dr. King, 1958
“Mine is a calling that takes me beyond national allegiances, (for) I have to live with the meaning of my commitment to the ministry of Jesus Christ.” Martin Luther King, Jr., 1966
“There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.” Martin Luther King, Jr., 1966
“The fundamental question is: Does America have the capacity to hear and heed the (real) King or must America sanitize King in order to evade and avoid his challenge?“ Cornel West
