Martin Luther King Jr. quote
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Wow, that's weird. I was just about to post some MLK quotes..
Check out his "Beyond Vietnam" speech" and "The Other America.”
The later years of King’s life are the most interesting as well as most important. This is when he made his transformation from simply being a non-violent civil rights activist to a class conscious activist that challenged our very system. His final speeches reveled that that like Malcolm X, he understood that the struggle for equality was an economic struggle and that Capitalism was the ultimate problem.
In his final months, he organized the most militant project of his life – The Poor People’s Campaign.” He traveled the US to assemble “a multiracial army of the poor.” He planned to shut entire cities down until the government provided the poor with jobs and income. Unfortunately these plans were spoiled when he was assassinated.
"You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry… Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong…with capitalism… There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a Democratic Socialism."
"We've got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. It means that questions must be raised. Who owns this oil? ... Who owns the iron ore? ... Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two-thirds water?"
"There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid, or day laborer. "There is nothing except shortsightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimum-and livable-income for every American family. There is nothing, except a tragic death wish, to prevent us from reordering our priorities.
"The coalition of an energized section of labor, Negroes, unemployed, and welfare recipients may be the source of power that reshapes economic relationships and ushers in a breakthrough to a new level of social reform."
Check out his "Beyond Vietnam" speech" and "The Other America.”
The later years of King’s life are the most interesting as well as most important. This is when he made his transformation from simply being a non-violent civil rights activist to a class conscious activist that challenged our very system. His final speeches reveled that that like Malcolm X, he understood that the struggle for equality was an economic struggle and that Capitalism was the ultimate problem.
In his final months, he organized the most militant project of his life – The Poor People’s Campaign.” He traveled the US to assemble “a multiracial army of the poor.” He planned to shut entire cities down until the government provided the poor with jobs and income. Unfortunately these plans were spoiled when he was assassinated.
"You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry… Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong…with capitalism… There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a Democratic Socialism."
"We've got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. It means that questions must be raised. Who owns this oil? ... Who owns the iron ore? ... Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that is two-thirds water?"
"There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid, or day laborer. "There is nothing except shortsightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimum-and livable-income for every American family. There is nothing, except a tragic death wish, to prevent us from reordering our priorities.
"The coalition of an energized section of labor, Negroes, unemployed, and welfare recipients may be the source of power that reshapes economic relationships and ushers in a breakthrough to a new level of social reform."
its unfortuante the people who have the power to make a difference leave us the earliest (i.e. MLK, tupac, JFK, etc.)
just imagine what they could have done....
seems kinda fishy to me (as in y/how they died)...but thats another story....
@206 thyat shit in ur sig trips me the fuck out!...and i aint even high!
just imagine what they could have done....
seems kinda fishy to me (as in y/how they died)...but thats another story....
@206 thyat shit in ur sig trips me the fuck out!...and i aint even high!
Yeah, it's too bad they were all murdered.
No doubt in my mind that MLK & Malcom X were assasinated because of the conclusions they both made before they were killed (socialism).
If you're talking about the fractal, check this thread I made
No doubt in my mind that MLK & Malcom X were assasinated because of the conclusions they both made before they were killed (socialism).
If you're talking about the fractal, check this thread I made