If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Interpretation
We need to revisit our core moral values to advance meaningfully in life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of understanding and valuing our foundational morals and spirituality in order to progress as individuals and as a society. Martin Luther King, Jr. suggests that our reality is built upon these essential values, which guide our actions and beliefs.
In practice
In a speech about community values, one might say, 'As Martin Luther King Jr. once stated, we must rediscover our precious values.'
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.
When You Hold Onto Your History, You Do It At The Expense Of Your Destiny.
Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.
The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.
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