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It is not only poverty that torments the negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. it is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It Is Not Only Poverty That Torments

Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not only poverty that torments the negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. it is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life.
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