Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.
Interpretation
The quote promotes inclusivity and challenges the idea of viewing anyone within the U.S. as an outsider.
Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the importance of unity and inclusivity among all individuals living in the United States, regardless of their backgrounds or perspectives. He critiques the narrow-minded notion of regarding those who speak out for change as 'outside agitators,' asserting that everyone has a stake in the country and should be regarded as part of the collective community, deserving respect and understanding.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech promoting community engagement and activism.
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.
Thus, those who say they would have right without its correlate, wrong; or good government without its correlate, misrule, do not apprehend the great principles of the universe, nor the nature of all creation.
As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.
Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way now imaginable to kill off the human race.
The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself composite, made up of equal parts of instinct and training. Here and there protrude the granite peaks of the inevitable, but all about is rubble from the landslips of chance.
Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.
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