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In reply to the discussion: NYC Approves Apartment Building With Separate Entrance for Poor People [View all]IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)inconvenience. I disagree. Rosa Parks, for instance, stood to lose her very life. MLK certainly took that risk and paid it too. Not that they were exactly poor, but the poor who stood with them suffered the same dangers. And Ms. Parks and Dr. King would never have succeeded w/o the strong support of their largely poor followers. Think about the poverty-stricken men who made that southern march where they simply all wore a sign reading "I AM A MAN". During the Summer of Freedom, more than a few poor people - surely with families - laid everything on the line for freedom.
It's happened before. It can happen again. Nobody can tell me they should be able to sit this one out for one convenient reason or another and dishonor those who risked all.