I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the injustice of segregation and its impact on personal dignity and self-respect.
In this quote, Martin Luther King, Jr. reflects on his inability to accept the practice of segregation, highlighting that the divisions created by society were not only unjust but also detrimental to one's sense of dignity. He argues that segregation is not merely a physical separation but an affront to human dignity and self-worth, emphasizing the deep psychological effects of such inequality on individuals.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about civil rights movements.
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.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
Sincerity is the same in a corner alone, as it is before the face of the world. It knows not how to wear two vizards, one for an appearance before men, and another for a short snatch in a corner; but it must have God, and be with him in the duty of prayer. It is not lip-labour that it doth regard, for it is the heart that God looks at, and that which sincerity looks at, and that which prayer comes from, if it be that prayer which is accompanied with sincerity.
God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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