Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
Interpretation
Freedom should not be pursued through negative emotions like bitterness and hatred.
In this quote, Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the importance of pursuing freedom through positive means rather than succumbing to negative feelings such as bitterness and hatred. He suggests that true liberation cannot be achieved by harboring ill will; instead, it requires a more compassionate and constructive approach to social justice and equality.
In practice
In a speech about civil rights, you might say, 'Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.'
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.
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Great and good are seldom the same man.
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What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?
Preaching the gospel without the Holy Spirit is to miss the entire point of the command of Jesus Christ for our era. In the area of "Christian activities" or "Christian service," how we are doing it is at least as important as what we are doing.
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