King proposed replacing materialist social values with person-centered ones
Evidence
Dr. King urged the nation to undergo a revolution of values. The United States needed to shift, he said, from “a thing-oriented society” to “a person-oriented society,” to see that the gap between the rich and the poor reflected an economic order that stripped millions of people of their ability to even imagine a decent living, and to understand that war (and the monies used to execute it) put us on the road to “spiritual death.” — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 561
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
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