Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.

  

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• I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Reality
  • Equality
  • I Think