The Huffington Post, January 15, 2016: Remembering MLK and His Focus on Poverty
“I’ve recently been listening to and even watching some of the speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. One of them, given at Stanford University less than a year before his assassination, struck me. It’s called ‘The Other America,’ and it focuses on the issue of poverty. One America, Dr. King says, is ‘overflowing with the milk of prosperity and the honey of opportunity.’ The other America, he says, ‘constantly transforms the buoyancy of hope into the fatigue of despair.’ In this other America, too many are ‘perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.'”