You should actually read that article beyond the “unsubstantiated” tag.
It’s very likely he did say either exactly those words or something very close to them. It’s just that no one recorded or transcribed him saying those because it was a private conversation between him and another individual who only wrote down the encounter 40 years after it happened.
I love the sentiment, but I always shy away from this particular quote, simply because it is unsubstantiated:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mlk-capitalism-flow/
You should actually read that article beyond the “unsubstantiated” tag.
It’s very likely he did say either exactly those words or something very close to them. It’s just that no one recorded or transcribed him saying those because it was a private conversation between him and another individual who only wrote down the encounter 40 years after it happened.
I do love the apt ‘rich beyond conscience’, whoever wrote the quote