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.
Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.
It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation . . . . Our interest will be to throw open the doors of commerce, and to knock off all its shackles, giving perfect freedom to all persons for the vent to whatever they may choose to bring into our ports, and asking the same in theirs.
When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.
You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to popentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.
We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.
I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.
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