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Martin Luther King Jr.

“Within the white majority there exists a substantial group who cherish democratic principles above privilege and who have demonstrated a will to fight side by side with the Negro against injustice. Another and more substantial group is composed of those having common needs with the Negro and who will benefit equally with him in the achievement of social progress. There are, in fact, more poor white Americans than there are Negro. Their need for a war on poverty is no less desperate than the Negro’s. In the South they have been deluded by race prejudice and largely remained aloof from common action. Ironically, with this posture they were fighting not only the Negro but themselves.”

Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.
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