" For poverty is miserable. It is ugly, disorganized, rowdy, sick, uneducated, violent, afflicted with crime. Poverty demeans human dignity. The demanding tone, the inarticulateness, the implied violence deeply offended us. We didn’t want to see it on our sacred monumental grounds. We wanted it out of sight and out of mind. "

― Hampton Sides , Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin