In Christ there is no East nor West.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the idea that in Christ, divisions such as geographical boundaries do not matter.
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s quote emphasizes the universal nature of Christian love and the idea that in the spirit of Christ, humanity is united beyond cultural, geographic, or racial distinctions. It calls for a sense of togetherness, promoting the belief that all people are equal and deserving of love and respect, irrespective of their origins or backgrounds.
In practice
This quote can be used during an interfaith dialogue to promote understanding and acceptance.
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.
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.
Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom.
I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.
He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man's right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself.
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
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