In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man that he has no right to exist. You are in a real way depriving him of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, denying in his case the very creed of his society.
Interpretation
Depriving someone of employment is akin to stripping away their dignity and existence.
This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the profound psychological and moral impact of unemployment on an individual. It highlights that denying someone a job is not just an economic issue; it strikes at the core of their identity and rights, undermining their sense of self-worth and basic human rights, which are integral to a fair society.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech about the importance of job creation initiatives.
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 am never less alone than when alone.
God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.
I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.
That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.
Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.
Every star may be a sun to someone.
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