Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.
Interpretation
The quote promotes inclusivity and challenges the idea of viewing anyone within the U.S. as an outsider.
Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the importance of unity and inclusivity among all individuals living in the United States, regardless of their backgrounds or perspectives. He critiques the narrow-minded notion of regarding those who speak out for change as 'outside agitators,' asserting that everyone has a stake in the country and should be regarded as part of the collective community, deserving respect and understanding.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech promoting community engagement and activism.
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.
The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)
. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well.
But night would come and with it the mountain moon and the lake would be moon - laned and I'd go out and sit in the grass and meditate facing west, wishing there were a Personal God in all this impersonal matter.
As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.
Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
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