If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Interpretation
We need to revisit our core moral values to advance meaningfully in life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of understanding and valuing our foundational morals and spirituality in order to progress as individuals and as a society. Martin Luther King, Jr. suggests that our reality is built upon these essential values, which guide our actions and beliefs.
In practice
In a speech about community values, one might say, 'As Martin Luther King Jr. once stated, we must rediscover our precious values.'
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.
Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else's responsibility and not our own.
All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a state of "learned helplessness" without hope to change their lives. Likewise, the wealthy can walk in a state of "learned blindness" ignoring the desperation of the local & global poor.
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars.
I am never less alone than when alone.
The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint
Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.
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