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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI): January - MLK Jr & National Poverty Awareness Month

Martin Luther King, Jr. & Poverty Awareness

(January)

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"The American Dream"

Speech delivered at Lincoln University, 1961

God never intended for one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.

Strength to Love

Book published 1963

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Nobel Peace Price Lecture, 1964

Nobel Peace Prize Lecture

Delivered December 11, 1964 

The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for

Nobel Peace Prize Lecture

Delivered December 11, 1964

While millions enjoy an unexampled opulence in developed nations, ten thousand people die of hunger each and every day of the year in the undeveloped world. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Let My People Go"

Speech delivered at Hunter College, 1965

A riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? That the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened. - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1966

60 Minutes Interview, 1966

Interview with Mike Wallace, September 27, 1966

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?

Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

Book published 1967
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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, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence"

Sermon delivered April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church, New York City

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence"

Sermon delivered April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church, New York City

if something isn’t done, and in a hurry, to bring the colored peoples of the world out of their long years of poverty, their long years of hurt and neglect, the whole world is doomed. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I've Been to the Mountaintop"

Speech delivered April 3, 1968* at Mason Temple, Memphis Tennessee

*Dr. King was assassinated the next day

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