Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
Interpretation
Music provides comfort and solace to those who are feeling hopeless.
This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks to the profound impact that music can have on individuals, especially during difficult times. It suggests that in moments of despair, music serves as a source of solace and emotional healing, helping individuals to navigate through their suffering and find peace within themselves.
In practice
During a speech about coping with loss, one might say, 'As Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, music is the best consolation for a despaired man.'
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.
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.
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
Nothing happens... but first a dream.
You're as young as your dreams, not as old as your calendar
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.
The sun is always shining someplace.
Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can't.
If you think you are too old to rock 'n roll, then you are.
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