JVS CEO’s Blog

As we prepare to remember and honor Dr. Martin Luther King, it is important to remember him not only as a great champion of racial justice, but also as a champion of economic justice. In his famous “I have a dream” speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, King said, “One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity… In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check…that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.”

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