I don’t believe that Booker T. Washington quote applied to MLK, a man I admired and mourned the loss as a youth, but as far as Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Maxine Water, Van Jones, etc go, it is almost B.T. Washington looked into the future and saw these leeches.
The legitimate movement for decent equal treatment transmogrified into the government solution of throwing money at it without a cohesive, value-based strategy. So, we ended up with housing projects, quotas, cheese trucks, rewards for unwed motherhood and on and on. We’re much the worse for it now as a nation.