Martin Luther King - Altruism

“Capitalism makes us more concerned about the economic security of the captains of industry than for the labouring men whose sweat and skills keep industry functioning”

(142) M. L. King in “Strength to love” for “on being a food neighbour” in

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“In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life” (144)

“True altruism is more than the capacity to pity it is the capacity to sympathize. Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demand the giving of one’s soul” (144)

“Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary”(143)