Poor Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr

The poor never get the job done they are sleepy.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; in doing so, the affluent…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year…

— Martin Luther King, Jr