There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will.
Interpretation
The lack of progress is not due to a shortage of people, but rather a lack of determination and commitment.
This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes that the true barrier to achieving goals and making change is not the absence of capable individuals or resources, but instead the willpower and determination to act and inspire others to join in that effort. It highlights the importance of human resolve in overcoming challenges and effecting change in society.
In practice
During a motivational speech to inspire leaders in the community.
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.
Anytime you get an idea, you need people to help you put it together. That is the beginning of an institution. When you create an institution, levels of authority and boundaries need to be established. If everybody owns it, nobody owns it. If everybody is responsible for it, nobody will be responsible.
If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.
We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for humanitarian reasons, but also because it was in our own best interest. We knew we couldn't isolate ourselves from trouble. There was no place to hide.
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.
Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.
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