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.
There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and dificult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed and unfailing aspiration that calls from below and a supreme Grace from above that answers.
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
You cannot step into the same river twice.
My solitude doesnβt depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
There is no governor anywhere. You are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. If anybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled - by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.
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