Celebrating 50 years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s healthcare address — 3 takeaways

It was 50 years ago today that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., put healthcare at the top of his list of shocking injustices, according to Forbes.

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Here are three takeaways:

1. Dr. King said, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhuman.”

2. Amanda Moore, a writer for The Huffington Post, described her difficulty in finding a source for the quote, which was oft-repeated but rarely appeared with further attribution.

3. The quote was printed in an edition of the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern newspaper dated March 26, 1966 (the day after the meeting in Chicago where Dr. King spoke).

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