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A review by shiradest
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.
5.0
No idea where all my notes went, but Dr. King cites lots of economic evidence in favor of a Basic Universal (aka Citizen's) Income.
This book should be required reading for all Americans starting in elementary school.
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was working for not only Negro civil rights, but for economic rights for all poor people when he was cut down prematurely. I'd heard vague comments about this as a teenager, but since all we ever heard about was his famous 'I have a Dream' speach, I shrugged it off. Not only has reading his book (his last, written in 1967) been an intense eye-opener, but on doing some searching, I find that it is not my imagination that the book was ignored by press and buried by libraries. My own uni. library cannot purchase it because it is out of print, and the public library has it in another city, on the stacks where the public can't see it.
Dr. King forsaw the link between poverty and terrorism before terrorism was recognized as such before riots were given international expression by the global economy:
"Social Justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention." P. 22
"Occasionally in life one develops a conviction so and meaningful that he will stand on... This is what I have found in nonviolence." P. 64
He also cites Dr. Kirtley Mather, ... in "Enough and to Spare" (P. 177)
As one gentleman, who may have ben there at the time, points out, Dr. King is not just what you see on TV. His mantle falls to all of us to pick up...
p6: quotes Hyman Bookbinder economic opportunity statement 29 december 1966 -not that difficult to erradicate poverty in the US if we had the will.
Read, Write, Dream, Teach !
ShiraDest
19 February, 12016 HE
This book should be required reading for all Americans starting in elementary school.
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was working for not only Negro civil rights, but for economic rights for all poor people when he was cut down prematurely. I'd heard vague comments about this as a teenager, but since all we ever heard about was his famous 'I have a Dream' speach, I shrugged it off. Not only has reading his book (his last, written in 1967) been an intense eye-opener, but on doing some searching, I find that it is not my imagination that the book was ignored by press and buried by libraries. My own uni. library cannot purchase it because it is out of print, and the public library has it in another city, on the stacks where the public can't see it.
Dr. King forsaw the link between poverty and terrorism before terrorism was recognized as such before riots were given international expression by the global economy:
"Social Justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention." P. 22
"Occasionally in life one develops a conviction so and meaningful that he will stand on... This is what I have found in nonviolence." P. 64
He also cites Dr. Kirtley Mather, ... in "Enough and to Spare" (P. 177)
As one gentleman, who may have ben there at the time, points out, Dr. King is not just what you see on TV. His mantle falls to all of us to pick up...
p6: quotes Hyman Bookbinder economic opportunity statement 29 december 1966 -not that difficult to erradicate poverty in the US if we had the will.
Read, Write, Dream, Teach !
ShiraDest
19 February, 12016 HE