Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Financial Advice to America

The Traumatized Budget
7 min readJan 21, 2019

Perspectives on MLK’s Ideas about Money

Image: Close-up of Martin Luther King’s face in stone, the MLK Memorial in Washington, DC. Photo by Ron Cogswell for Flickr. Creative Commons License.

Personal finance is not the first topic that comes to mind when you ponder the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. But the great thinker, orator, man of God, and activist had quite a lot to say about the subject — and how it relates to the larger forces at work in American and global society.

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The Traumatized Budget

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