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.
Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.
We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.
One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
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