Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the importance of responding to the needs of others, echoing a call for help.
In this quote, Martin Luther King, Jr. refers to the Biblical figure Paul and his mission to aid those in need, particularly the people of Macedonia. King emphasizes his own obligation to respond to the societal and moral calls for assistance in the fight against injustice and inequality, urging leaders and individuals alike to be responsive to the needs of their communities.
In practice
In a speech addressing volunteers, I could mention this quote to inspire them to respond to community needs.
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.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.
I make no apologies for being reasonable.
My whole career has been marked by taking on the toughest problems, bringing people together, creating uncommon coalitions to ultimately produce uncommon results - things that people said couldn't be done.
If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.
I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.
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