"[W]e must admit that capitalism has often left a gulf between superfluous wealth and abject poverty, has created conditions permitting necessities to be taken from the many to give luxuries to the few, and has encouraged small hearted men to become cold and conscienceless so that, like Dives before Lazarus, they are unmoved by suffering, poverty-stricken humanity…The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition…It can make men so I-centered that they are no longer thou-centered. Are we not too prone to judge success by the index of our salaries and the size of our wheel base on our automobiles, and not by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity?"
— Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.