I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of living a meaningful life over accumulating material wealth.
In this quote, Martin Luther King, Jr. expresses his desire to leave a legacy not of material possessions, but of a life dedicated to commitment and purpose. He highlights the notion that true fulfillment comes from the impact we have on others and the values we uphold, rather than the wealth we accumulate or the luxuries we possess.
In practice
In a eulogy to celebrate someone's life.
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.
They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life... God gives us time. And who has time for God? Which makes no sense.
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.
You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.
Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
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