Posted on 04/04/2018 12:02:15 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
Based on the responses in other threads around here a lot of conservatives don’t want him.
Categorically false.
I do not revere a drugs-and-orgies adulterer and plagiarist.
Give me Frederick Douglass. Give me Walter Williams.
I have a bump
“I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective – the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed matter: the guaranteed income… The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.” – – Where do We Go from Here?, 1967.
“[W]e are saying that something is wrong … with capitalism…. There must be better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.” – Speech to his staff, 1966.
We must recognize that we can’t solve our problem now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power… ”- Report to SCLC Staff, May 1967.
Have you looked at Selma lately?
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