We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the chance to enhance society with love and compassion.
Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks to the transformative power of love in society, suggesting that we have a unique opportunity to infuse our communities with a deeper sense of caring and connection. He implies that love can be a driving force for positive change and can elevate humanity to new heights, calling for action to embrace this potential.
In practice
In a speech about community service, one might say this quote to inspire others to contribute positively.
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.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo
They say love conquers all_x000D_ You can't start it like a car_x000D_ You can't stop it with a gun.
Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes--and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.
I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.
You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldnβt go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs.
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