Do these people really not understand that the IDEOLOGY of the political parties has changed?
Yes Southern Democrats opposed the Civil Rights Act. CONSERVATIVE Democrats. Those Democrats are, for the most part, REPUBLICANS today.
I wonder what MLK would think of the racist, right-wing Republican Party that opposes economic equality, opposes unions, opposes workers, opposes the poor and middle class? MLK fought for economic justice and equality just as much as he fought for racial equality. In fact, he believed that the two went hand in hand.
Tell me, which of these quotes from Dr King fits in with today's GOPers? Name me one GOP leader who would brace a single one of them.
[font size=4]"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "
"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. "
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
"One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. "
"In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining... We demand this fraud be stopped."
"The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old-age pensions, government relief for the destitute and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life. The captains of industry did not lead this transformation; they resisted it until they were overcome. When in the thirties the wave of union organization crested over the nation, it carried to secure shores not only itself but the whole society."
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."
"As I have said many times, and believe with all my heart, the coalition that can have the greatest impact in the struggle for human dignity here in America is that of the Negro and the forces of labor, because their fortunes are so closely intertwined."
"You are demanding that this city will respect the dignity of labor. So often we overlook the work and the significance of those who are not in professional jobs, of those who are not in the so-called big jobs. But let me say to you tonight that whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth."
"Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man."
"The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. "
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Republican men who were married to, brothers of, and sons of republican women voted for the 19th Amendment.
