One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on humanity's moral responsibility towards animals and a future realization of shared existence.
In this quote, Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks to the eventual understanding that the belief in the superiority over other animals is fundamentally absurd. He suggests that as humanity evolves, there will come a time when we recognize the shared existence and moral equivalency with other living beings, leading to a more compassionate and worthy way of cohabiting the planet.
In practice
In a speech about animal welfare legislation.
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.
Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for itself. Resting in the heart of words, seeing clearly into the cell of a word, feeling that the word is the seed of a life, a growing dawn... The poet Vandercammen says all that in a line: "A word can be a dawn and even a sure shelter."
The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.
The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
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