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Juvy D

The Seattle Times: Martin Luther King Jr. - 4 views

  • The curse of poverty has no justification in our age
    • chester lowe
       
      Poverty can really never be gone from today's world .. With the price of food and gas on the rise and employer's only want to pay the minium wage . The american dollar dosen't go as far as i did 3 year's ago .. Education dose help but the price of college has rose also in the last few year's . If it wasn't for the injury i got while in the military . I would be working a dead end job and working ton of overtime to make ends meet .. So poverty will never really be wiped out !!
  • In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: There are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.
    • Juvy D
       
      racial discrimination was one the factor that really affects poverty but mlk his concern most of what affects both, i mean the situation among white and negro alike in the society.
  • Up to recently we have proceeded from a premise that poverty is a consequence of multiple evils: lack of education restricting job opportunities; poor housing which stultified home life and suppressed initiative; fragile family relationships which distorted personality development. The logic of this approach suggested that each of these causes be attacked one by one. Hence a housing program to transform living conditions, improved educational facilities to furnish tools for better job opportunities, and family counseling to create better personal adjustments were designed.
    • Juvy D
       
      this were examples of the causes of poverty
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  • fragmentary and spasmodic reforms have failed to reach down to the profoundest needs of the poor.
    • Juvy D
       
      the needs of the poor people were not attained in the society.
  • easures were intended to remove the causes of poverty.
  • n addition to the absence of coordination and sufficiency, the programs of the past all have another common failing -- they are indirect. Each seeks to solve poverty by first solving something else.
    • Juvy D
       
      Mlk saying that one of us were seeking for the solution of poverty but instead of focusing to that problem we rather choose to solve and take care of another concerns.
  • am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.
    • Juvy D
       
      he claims that simplest approach is not the most effective, but the solution was to have a guaranteed income as one solution to get rid poverty.
  • We have come a long way in our understanding of human motivation and of the blind operation of our economic system. Now we realize that dislocations in the market operation of our economy and the prevalence of discrimination thrust people into idleness and bind them in constant or frequent unemployment against their will. The poor are less often dismissed from our conscience today by being branded as inferior and incompetent. We also know that no matter how dynamically the economy develops and expands it does not eliminate all poverty.
  • We are likely to find that the problems of housing and education, instead of preceding the elimination of poverty, will themselves be affected if poverty is first abolished. The poor transformed into purchasers will do a great deal on their own to alter housing decay. Negroes, who have a double disability, will have a greater effect on discrimination when they have the additional weapon of cash to use in their struggle.
    • Juvy D
       
      i think his referring to the wrong approach here of solving poverty problem. providing education and housing wasn't the solution either.
  • Beyond these advantages, a host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life and in his own hands, when he has the assurance that his income is stable and certain, and when he know that he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts between husband, wife and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on a scale of dollars is eliminated.
    • Juvy D
       
      explanation about the advantages of abolishing poverty
  • Two conditions are indispensable if we are to ensure that the guaranteed income operates as a consistently progressive measure. First, it must be pegged to the median income of society, not the lowest levels of income. To guarantee an income at the floor would simply perpetuate welfare standards and freeze into the society poverty conditions. Second, the guaranteed income must be dynamic; it must automatically increase as the total social income grows. Were it permitted to remain static under growth conditions, the recipients would suffer a relative decline. If periodic reviews disclose that the whole national income has risen, then the guaranteed income would have to be adjusted upward by the same percentage. Without these safeguards a creeping retrogression would occur, nullifying the gains of security and stability.
    • Juvy D
       
      two types of conditions which were indispensable if the the guaranteed income will operates as consistently progressive measure.
  • This proposal is not a "civil rights" program, in the sense that that term is currently used. The program would benefit all the poor, including the two-thirds of them who are white. I hope that both Negro and white will act in coalition to effect this change, because their combined strength will be necessary to overcome the fierce opposition we must realistically anticipate.
    • Juvy D
       
      his talking about equality here. he said both white and negro will both benefits with this proposed action measure they come up with to solve the problem of poverty
ryanhersha

I've Been to the Mountaintop -- Encyclopedic Entry - 6 views

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    Martin Luther KingJr. I read the speech "I have a dream " Then watched the video and found it truly moving ! I the video of "I been to the Mountaintop " Both were and are motivating !!
Juvy D

" Where are we going" MLK - 3 views

MLK, states that in last paragraph time has come to civilize and abolish poverty. the curse of poverty has no justification. we should not wait until people will be blinded were people will ate h...

chester lowe

" I've Been To The Mountaintop" - 2 views

I feel that MLK knew his time was at hand by the way, he started his speech. I've seen the promise land . saying that he might not get there with them . I read all the speeches and then watched the...

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