Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the inevitability of global harmony and the positive transformation of humanity's shared experience.
Martin Luther King Jr. expresses the belief that eventually, all people across the world will recognize the necessity of coexisting peacefully. He suggests that this understanding will change our collective struggles into a celebration of unity and brotherhood, transforming a dire cosmic reality into a harmonious existence.
In practice
This quote can be used during a peace conference to emphasize the importance of global unity.
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.
Grief, of course, is not something that operates according to a specific time frame, and it seems cold to suggest otherwise. Yet when we do not grasp that God is present in pain, we eventually insist on victory or, worse, blame the sufferer for not "getting over it" fast enough. This is more than a failure to extend compassion; it's an exercise in cruelty.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Becoming a vegan is a sure way of completely avoiding participation in the abuse of farmed animals. Vegans are a living demonstration of the fact that we do not need to exploit animals for food.
Not that our salvation should be the effect of our work, but our work should be the evidence of our salvation.
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment.
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