Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
Interpretation
The quote highlights Israel's role as a democratic nation.
Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes that Israel stands as a significant example of democracy in the global landscape. By referring to Israel as an 'outpost of democracy,' he underscores its importance in promoting democratic values and principles amidst a world often characterized by conflict and authoritarian regimes.
In practice
In a speech advocating for civil rights, one might cite this quote to illustrate the importance of democracy.
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.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land
The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.
And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy.
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now... and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.
There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules
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