"They segregated southern money from the poor whites and they segregated the Negro from everything. That's what happened when the Negro and white masses of the South threatened to unite and build a great society: a society of justice where none would prey upon the weakness of others; a society of plenty where greed and poverty would be done away." ~ 1965, at the end of the Selma Montgomery March.​

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​"I am still committed to militant, powerful, massive nonviolence as the most potent weapon in grappling with racism." ~ Speech at Grosse Pointe High School , 1968

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I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last 12 or 15 years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met . . ." ~ Speech at Grosse Pointe High School

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"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death. I see no alternative to direct action and creative nonviolence to achieve free healthcare for everyone." ~ Speech to the Medical Committee

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"So I see the war as an enemy of the poor. We were taking the Black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them 8,000 miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem . . ." ~ 'Beyond Vietnam' Speech at Riverside Church, New York 1967

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"I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the

violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of

violence in the world today: my own government."

~ 'Beyond Vietnam' Speech at Riverside Church, New York 1967

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.Through a program called COINTELPRO, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover directed federal agents to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" Dr. King's activities.

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