Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of free will in defining humanity and shaping one's life.
Martin Luther King Jr. highlights the essential role of freedom in the human experience, suggesting that it is our ability to make choices and deliberate over our actions that truly defines us as individuals. By operating within the framework of our own destiny, we engage in the profound act of decision-making, which shapes not only our lives but also the world around us.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth, one could say, 'As Martin Luther King Jr. said, man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny.'
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.
The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
Eternity will be wonderful, but there is one thing heaven will not contain, and that is the call, the possibility, and the privilege of living a supernatural life here and now by faith, before we meet Jesus face to face.
For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. _x000D_ Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
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