Affirmative Action Section
-- Martin Luther King, Jr., January, 1965
the author's positions in brief
Affirmative Action Section |
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| "Can any fair-minded citizen
deny that the Negro has been deprived? Few people reflect that for two centuries
the Negro was enslaved, and robbed of any wages--potential accrued wealth
which would have been the legacy of his descendants. All of America's wealth
today could not adequately compensate its Negroes for his centuries of exploitation
and humiliation. It is an economic fact that a program such as I propose
would certainly cost far less than any computation of two centuries of unpaid
wages plus accumulated interest. In any case, I do not intend that this
program of economic aid should apply only to the Negro: it should benefit
the disadvantaged of all races."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr., January, 1965 |
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