Redistribute the pain
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Jan 30, 2019
2 minutes
Next time, they should redistribute the pain.
That's an expression Martin Luther King used -- he credited Jesse Jackson -- in the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike as he urged boycotts and other forms of economic coercion in support of the strikers. Those men had been suffering alone, he said. Now, let the whole town feel what they were going through.
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