Have been reading/re-reading MLK speeches and essays recently. He seems both more Christian and more radical than often presented. The "content of my character" passage should not be used to suggest that he plumped for laissez-faire capitalism. To the contrary:

"John Kenneth Galbraith said that a guaranteed annual income could be done for about twenty billion dollars a year. And I say to you today, that if our nation can spend thirty five billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and twenty billion dollars to put a

man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God's children on their own two feet right here on earth" (1967). He says more about this above the quote. But also: "Now don't think that you have me in a 'bind' today. I'm not talking about communism. What I'm saying to

you this morning is that communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis