Hebrew prophet Amos equated immorality with social injustice
Shepherd spoke to a society characterized by oppression of the poor
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It shouldn’t be a surprise that the Rev. Martin Luther King alluded to the book of Amos in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963:
No, no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousn…