Interesting Quotes From Dr. MLK Over 40 Years Ago

"When we view the negative experiences of life, the Negro has a double share. There are twice as many unemployed. The rate of infant mortality among Negroes is double that of Whites and there are twice as many Negroes dying in Vietnam as Whites in proportion to their size in the population."

If Dr. King were alive today to witness the ascension of the nation’s first Black president, would his happiness be overshadowed by the glaring realities of a country engaged in three wars; where over 14 percent of its people live in poverty, and where there are now more Black men in the prison industrial complex than were enslaved in 1850?

Harry Belafonte, a friend of Dr. King said the civil rights leader iterated, “I fear that I'm trying to integrate my people into a burning house."

In his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963, Dr. King told the world that Negroes in America were still crippled by the manacles of segregation and chains of discrimination and called the condition of the majority of Negroes in America “shameful.”
We have come to our nation's capital to cash a check, he said. “Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check; a check which has come back marked ‘insufficient funds.'”


Millions of young people in the world today are not familiar with the body of knowledge the great civil rights leader left as his legacy.
Now, where are we 48 years later?