Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
Interpretation
The quote highlights Israel's role as a democratic nation.
Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes that Israel stands as a significant example of democracy in the global landscape. By referring to Israel as an 'outpost of democracy,' he underscores its importance in promoting democratic values and principles amidst a world often characterized by conflict and authoritarian regimes.
In practice
In a speech advocating for civil rights, one might cite this quote to illustrate the importance of democracy.
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.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land
It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.
Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.
Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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