This is the great new problem of mankind. We have inherited a large house, a great ‘world house’ in which we have to live together– black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Hindu– a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace.
Interpretation
We must learn to coexist peacefully despite our differences.
This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. highlights the urgent need for humanity to embrace unity in diversity. In a world marked by deep-seated divisions based on race, religion, and culture, King emphasizes that as a global family, we can no longer afford to live separately and must foster mutual respect and understanding to achieve peace.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech promoting intercultural dialogue.
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.
...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.
But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn't felt it go away, as if he'd known the best moment to let go.
History and socio-economic inequality and all those things had, like, borne down upon my family and my community and really sort of narrowed our choices.
In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.
Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
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