MLK was assassinated about 3 weeks before his poor people campaign was set to kick off . (*CLICK THRU*)
“By the millions, people in America find themselves perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.”-MLK
"When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard.”-MLK
“ A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”-MLK “We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered.”-MLK
“We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured.” Martin Luther King Jr. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ‘ Teachers - a meaningful thing you can do right now is ensure that your students know how truly unpopular Dr. King’s actions were at the time. Show them the poll numbers. The hate mail. Help them understand that radical change is not popular or polite but is no less necessary. ‘