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.
I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be
If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.
The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.
Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.
When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror and reveal us. Dogs in particular are often reflections of us, and what we need them to be.
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