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.
It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced by Peter, I should dream of dentists or gardening. I wonder what unspeakable depths of awfulness can only be expressed by the polite symbol of Peter's embraces?
I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole.
The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.
All roads lead to Trantor, says the old proverb, and that is where all stars end.
Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
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