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"We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage."

— Martin Luther King Jr.

January 1, 1970

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Statement on minimum wage legislation (18 March 1966), as quoted in Now Is the Time. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Labor in the South: The Case for a Coalition (January 1986)

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Statement on minimum wage legislation (18 March 1966), as quoted in Now Is the Time. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Labor in the South: The Case for a Coalition (January 1986)