Martin Luther King, Jr. was a pastor, activist and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. What is the truth about Martin Luther King, Jr?
One day we must ask the question, “Why are there forty million poor people in America?” And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I'm simply saying that more and more, we've got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's market place. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. It means that questions must be raised. You see, my friends, when you deal with this, you begin to ask the question, “Who owns the oil?” You begin to ask the question, “Who owns the iron ore?” You begin to ask the question, “Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two thirds water?” These are questions that must be asked.
Speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1967
Whenever the issue of compensatory treatment for the Negro is raised, some of our friends recoil in horror. The Negro should be granted equality, they agree; but he should ask nothing more. On the surface, this appears reasonable, but it is not realistic.
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"A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for the Negro" to compete on a just and equal basis.
quoted in Let the Trumpet Sound, by Stephen Oates
If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas.
MLK (Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies by Michael C. Dawson
There is also the violence of having to live in a community and pay higher consumer prices for good or higher rent for equivalent housing than are charged in the white areas of the city. Do you know that a can of beans almost always costs a few cents more in grocery chain stores located in the Negro ghetto than in a store of that same chain located in the upper middle class suburbs, where the median income is five times as high?
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