To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
Interpretation
Ignoring wrongdoing allows it to persist and grow.
This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the moral responsibility individuals have to acknowledge and confront evil. By choosing to ignore injustices happening around us, we inadvertently support and enable them, thus failing to uphold our collective ethical standards and social justice.
In practice
In a speech advocating for social justice, one might say this quote to highlight the importance of speaking out against inequality.
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.
Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.
Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want. I'm a heterosexual...big deal, but if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter, either.
The true principle of government is this - make the system compleat in its structure; give a perfect proportion and balance to its parts; and the powers you give it will never affect your security.
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
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