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Today, a bunch of people who don't agree with Martin Luther King Jr's ideals will share quotes of his because it is politically wise of them to do so. Let's remember where he stood on a couple of topics that are still relevant today.
"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens’ Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice."
Martin Luther King Jr 1963
Martin Luther King Jr 1963
"So today capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes."
- Martin Luther King Jr, 1952.
- Martin Luther King Jr, 1952.
“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.”
-- Martin Luther King Jr, 1963.
-- Martin Luther King Jr, 1963.
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”
-- Martin Luther King Jr, 1966.
-- Martin Luther King Jr, 1966.
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