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In one of his speeches in the early 1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks of poverty in America. Photos of Dr. King during the Civil Rights movement are blended with still and video images of hunger and poverty in present day Rhode Island against the backdrop of Dr. King's speech.
After passage of civil rights acts in 1964 and 1965, King began challenging the nation's fundamental priorities. He maintained that civil rights laws were empty without "human rights" — including economic rights. For people too poor to eat at a restaurant or afford a decent home, King said, anti-discrimination laws were hollow.
He decried the huge income gaps between rich and poor, and called for "radical changes in the structure of our society" to redistribute wealth and power.
"True compassion," King declared, "is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2269