Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
Interpretation
Be a source of tranquility and positivity to inspire similar behaviors in others.
This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the importance of personal responsibility in creating a peaceful world. Rather than waiting for others to change or for peace to manifest externally, individuals should embody the peace they desire, becoming examples of harmony and goodwill that can influence those around them.
In practice
Use this quote in a speech about community service to emphasize personal responsibility.
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.
I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are.
Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
The universe has a body and soul and evolves through cosmic time. As microcosms of stardust, we do the same.
People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
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