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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a minister and activist who is undoubtedly the most well-known figure to emerge from the Civil Rights Movement. Born in 1929 and assassinated in 1968, King’s messages of love, cooperation, altruism, and justice are frequently invoked by individuals across the political spectrum. This has led some contemporary racial justice activists—including Alexander—to point out that, particularly in the years leading up to his death, King’s vision was far more revolutionary than many people today seem to want to admit. Alexander argues that, rather than simply wanting a “colorblind,” racially harmonious world, King wished to radically restructure American society in order to bring justice to its poorest and most marginalized members.
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Genuine equality for black people, King reasoned, demanded a radical restructuring of society, one that would address the needs of the black and white poor throughout the country. Shortly before his assassination, he envisioned bringing to Washington, D.C. thousands of the nation's disadvantaged, in an interracial alliance that embraced rural and ghetto blacks, Appalachian whites, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Native Americans, to demand jobs and income––the right to live. In a speech delivered in 1968, King acknowledged there had been some progress for blacks since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but insisted that the current challenges required even greater resolve and that the entire nation must be transformed for economic justice to be more than a dream for poor people of all colors.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes in The New Jim Crow
The The New Jim Crow quotes below are all either spoken by Martin Luther King, Jr. or refer to Martin Luther King, Jr.. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Genuine equality for black people, King reasoned, demanded a radical restructuring of society, one that would address the needs of the black and white poor throughout the country. Shortly before his assassination, he envisioned bringing to Washington, D.C. thousands of the nation's disadvantaged, in an interracial alliance that embraced rural and ghetto blacks, Appalachian whites, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Native Americans, to demand jobs and income––the right to live. In a speech delivered in 1968, King acknowledged there had been some progress for blacks since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but insisted that the current challenges required even greater resolve and that the entire nation must be transformed for economic justice to be more than a dream for poor people of all colors.
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