To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
Interpretation
Ignoring wrongdoing allows it to persist and grow.
This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the moral responsibility individuals have to acknowledge and confront evil. By choosing to ignore injustices happening around us, we inadvertently support and enable them, thus failing to uphold our collective ethical standards and social justice.
In practice
In a speech advocating for social justice, one might say this quote to highlight the importance of speaking out against inequality.
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.
Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place.
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.
The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait.
Scopes isnβt on trial; civilization is on trial.
He is the way, the truth, and the light, and no one can come back into the presence of our Father in heaven except through him. Christ is God the Son and possesses every virtue in its perfection. Therefore, the only measure of true greatness is how close a man can become like Jesus. That man is greatest who is most like Christ, and those who love him most will be most like him.
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