By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing...we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes.
Interpretation
The popularity of violence in media influences societal behavior and attitudes towards violence.
Martin Luther King, Jr. highlights the detrimental impact of media on society, particularly how the portrayal of violence and heroism through firearms contributes to a culture that glorifies aggression and hatred. He warns that this continuous exposure to violent imagery fosters an environment where violence is not only accepted but is celebrated, leading to real-world consequences and a shift in moral values.
In practice
During a community meeting about youth violence, this quote can be used to emphasize the influence of media on children's behavior.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber.
A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.
As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.
Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.
How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in flashes overlaid.
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