Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the inherent worth of every individual as a creation of God.
Martin Luther King, Jr. suggests that every person possesses intrinsic value and dignity simply by being a child of God. This perspective encourages respect and recognition for each individual's humanity, encouraging us to see beyond societal status and to appreciate everyoneβs unique worth.
In practice
In a discussion about self-worth, one might say, 'Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.'
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.
There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and dificult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed and unfailing aspiration that calls from below and a supreme Grace from above that answers.
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.
The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.
I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.
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