The self cannot be self without other selves.
Interpretation
Our identity is shaped by our relationships with others.
This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the interconnectedness of individuals, suggesting that one's sense of self is not isolated but rather developed through interactions with others. It reflects the idea that understanding who we are requires acknowledging the people around us, reinforcing the importance of relationships in defining our identity and existence.
In practice
In a discussion about community and belonging, this quote could highlight the importance of social connections.
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.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
I remember that throughout history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always...whenever you are in doubt that that is God's way - the way the world is meant to be. Think of that and then try to do His way.
This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last breath.
Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere.
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