“King wanted peace, but not at the expense of equality. He wanted little black girls and boys to play with little white girls and boys, but not if it meant pretending racism didn’t exist. He respected authority, but challenged those wearing badges and carrying batons and sitting in the Oval Read more…
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“In a story published a week before his assassination, King told Jose Yglesias in the New York Times magazine, ‘In a sense you could say we are engaged in the class struggle.’ The civil rights movement had not cost a dime, he said, but the movement to uproot poverty and Read more…
“The fact that the ‘hashtag resistance’ is able to draw in a lot of people who are frustrated with the status quo is incredibly useful, and it’s something that revolutionaries at the other end of the spectrum need to understand, need to embrace, and need to help pull to the Read more…
“Government workers are far from alone in feeling stressed about not getting paid. Nearly 80 percent of American workers (78 percent) say they’re living paycheck to paycheck, according to a 2017 report by employment website CareerBuilder. Women are particularly vulnerable: 81 percent of them report living paycheck to paycheck, compared Read more…
“In no uncertain terms, King articulated his opposition to the war in Vietnam, saying, “I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic, destructive suction Read more…
“‘We believe in having a voice in public institutions. In L.A. Unified, it’s a fight about public education and the front lines of a battle between public schools and charter schools,’ said Max Belasco, one of the main organizers of DSA’s efforts during the strike.” Democratic Socialists of America – Read more…
“King understood racial equality was inextricably linked to economics. He asked, ‘What good does it do to be able to eat at a lunch counter if you can’t buy a hamburger?’ Those disadvantages have persisted. Today, for instance, the wealth of the average white family is more than 20 times Read more…
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