Michael K. Honey Quotes

Unions, he [Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.] underscored, were the "first anti-poverty program" and they should be accessible to all who work for wages.

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Declaring that "all labor has dignity," King stated that sanitation workers deserved a living wage and union rights, for what made labor menial was not hard and dirty work, but lack of union rights and poor conditions. As he told the Local 1199 hospital workers union a short while before he came to Memphis, "You see, no labor is really menial unless you're not getting adequate wages."

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