"But while so many white Americans are..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society.
More by Martin Luther King Jr
“The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.”
“I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.”
“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
More on Inequality
“Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.”
“It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.”
“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
More on Awareness
“Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you awaken you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to be a self-serving autonomous activity that takes possession of you and runs your life.”
“Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.”
“Life whispers to you all the time...from the time you wake up in the morning and with every single experience.”