“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.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.
Also:
Dr. King was a snappy dresser. If we modern leftists knew what was good for us, we’d give up on the whole “let’s go out of our way to look like a bunch of hobos” thing that we’ve been guilty of pulling off for a number of years.
