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— 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 ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy."
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If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.
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