The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.
Interpretation
Poverty is an unjust condition that should not exist in modern society.
This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. highlights the idea that, in an age of abundance and technological advancement, the existence of poverty is unjustifiable. It challenges society to reflect on the systemic structures that perpetuate inequality and calls for action to address these injustices so that every individual can achieve their full potential.
In practice
In a speech addressing social justice, one might use this quote to emphasize the need for change.
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.
As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It is almost as though we were being invaded by alien beings intent on colonizing our planet, reducing us to serfs, and then excluding as many of us as possible.
It is serving God and others persistently with full heart and soul that turns testimony of truth into unbreakable spiritual strength.
Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters.
Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.
I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I passionately love liberty, legality, the respect for rights, but not democracy....liberty is my foremost passion. That is the truth.
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