His questions are still relevant and his spirit will never die:

One day we must ask the question “Why are there 40 million poor people in America?” When you ask that question, you’re raising a question about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.

I’m simply saying that, more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole of society. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life’s marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.

When you deal with this, you begin to ask the questions: Who owns the oil? You begin to ask the question: Who owns the iron ore? You begin to ask the question: Why do people have to pay water bills in a world that’s two thirds water?

Martin Luther King, Jr. / SCLC convention / summer 1967

(thank you to Rock A Mole productions for this quote)