If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of helping others and making a positive impact in their lives.
In this quote, Martin Luther King Jr. highlights the value of selflessness and the fulfillment that comes from aiding others. He suggests that life gains meaning and purpose when we support those around us, whether through encouragement, guidance, or simply spreading joy, and that such acts of kindness make our existence worthwhile.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech about community service.
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.
It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future
Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again
Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.
Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.
I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever.
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