When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that restrictions on whom one can marry limit personal freedom.
In this quote, Martin Luther King Jr. asserts that societal rules governing marriage restrict individual liberty, particularly when they prevent people from marrying whom they choose. He highlights the importance of love and partnership as fundamental human rights that should not be dictated by societal norms or prejudices, advocating for freedom in personal relationships.
In practice
In a speech advocating for marriage equality, this quote can highlight the need for societal change.
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.
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
I always had an affinity for older people. I had a job delivering newspapers, and one place I had to go was an old people's home. Some people would introduce you to their neighbors as if you were a nephew or grandson. They didn't get many visitors, so they acted like you were coming to see them. And that stuck with me for a long time.
But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their hand-holding on the street and lying on top of each other on the Cambridge Common, prefer their privacy.
I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
Wai Lin is the first Bond Girl who is on a par with Bond, someone who can match up with him mentally and physically. From the moment our characters see each other, there is a wariness and a recognition that this person is not who she or he seems to be.
Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.
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