Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that any form of injustice poses a risk to justice universally.
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s quote highlights the interconnectedness of justice. It serves as a reminder that injustice, regardless of where it occurs, undermines the principles of justice for all. Therefore, it calls for a collective responsibility to address and confront injustice, as what happens in one place can have repercussions felt globally.
In practice
In a speech advocating for civil rights, one might use this quote to underscore the importance of fighting discrimination.
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.
I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy
The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.
There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.
there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone. sitting up in my bed the lights out, hearing the outside sounds, lifting my cheap bottle of wine, letting the warmth of the grape enter me as I heard the rats moving about the room, I preferred them to humans. being lost, being crazy maybe is not so bad if you can be that way undisturbed. New Orleans gave me that. nobody ever called my name.
Shepherds don't look after sheep because they love them - although I do think some shepherds like their sheep too much. They look after their sheep so they can, first, fleece them and second, turn them into meat. That's much more like the priesthood as I know it.
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