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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

A rather poignant MLK, Jr quote for the Missouri state legislature just now


"In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right to work.' 

It is a law to rob us of our civil rights and job rights. It is supported by Southern segregationists who are trying to keep us from achieving our civil rights and our right of equal job opportunity. Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining by which unions have improved wages and working conditions of everyone…

Wherever these laws have been passed, wages are lower, job opportunities are fewer and there are no civil rights. We do not intend to let them do this to us. We demand this fraud be stopped. Our weapon is our vote."


-Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking on "right to work" laws in 1961




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