Republicans love to claim (wrongly) that MLK Jr. was a Republican and that today he would be a foe of the democratic party. Meanwhile, the real MLK:; “CALL IT DEMOCRACY, OR CALL IT DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM, BUT THERE MUST BE A BETTER DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH WITHIN THIS COUNTRY FOR ALL GOD’S CHILDREN.”
– SPEECH TO THE NEGRO
AMERICAN LABOR COUNCIL, 1961.