The Three Evils Of Society By Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King gave a speech of “The Three Evils of Society” on August 31, 1967, at the National Conference on New Politics in Chicago. Martin Luther King knew who and what has been the fundamental cause to keep suffering human being. He believed that the three roots of evils in our society are coming from poverty, racism and war. In order to overcome these fear, society must transform to the new society. These three things typically are formed of violence that exists in a brutal cycle. There are all somehow interrelated to each other and also influencing people’s living. One of the three evils he believes was poverty. He stated that the United States is extremely materialism that causes issues such as unemployment, homelessness, hunger,
malnutrition, illiteracy, infant mortality and slums. He also stated that great inequalities between wealthy and poor came from unfair of income distribution. In fact, Suisse Global Wealth established that United Sates have one of the most unevenly wealth distribution. He also emphasizes that these matters is no longer resembles in First World country. Wealthy people usually stay where they are, as well as, poor people stay the same and they are not much mobility in the society. These gaps between wealthy and poor get usually indifferent and oblivious to most people. Martin Luther King believed that if one nation cannot concern people from the bottom one couldn’t achieve great nation. Martin Luther King described his second evil as racism. He believed that racism is contempt of people’s lives. One cannot decide which race is the center of value and devotion and be responsible for the rule of the world and on the other hand one race have the lowest of the status. Extreme racism will be distinct and excluded from the society. For example, nowadays U.S. prison’s most of the proportion is African Americans when one-eighth of the total U.S. population. This can demonstrated that U.S. clearly has racism problem. Lastly, third evil was defined was war, militarism. He believes that nations that continuously having a war and spending enormous amount of money on military defense will not be achieved peace. United States especially spend large amount of money on military compare to other nations. In fact, U.S. military is responsible for more than 50% of the money spent on war. Martin Luther King believed that violence such as war is one of the most evil things in the world today. Increasing militarism for gaining power and defense no longer keep people safe within the country but threating the peace.