Gwladys Pendlebury on Nostr: “And one day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people ...
“And 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…” – MLK, Speech to Southern Christian Leadership Conference Atlanta, Georgia, August 16, 1967.
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