An essential bit from Martin Luther King's "The Other America: How the bootless may raise themselves by their bootstraps

Note: The "Great Society" was President Johnson's term for a series of programs to make the US great for all its citizens. It failed for the reason King mentions here. FromThe Other America: A man was on the plane with me some weeks ago and he came up to me and said, "The problem, Dr. King, that I see with what you all are doing is that every time I see you and other Negroes, you're protesting