Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the inevitability of global harmony and the positive transformation of humanity's shared experience.
Martin Luther King Jr. expresses the belief that eventually, all people across the world will recognize the necessity of coexisting peacefully. He suggests that this understanding will change our collective struggles into a celebration of unity and brotherhood, transforming a dire cosmic reality into a harmonious existence.
In practice
This quote can be used during a peace conference to emphasize the importance of global unity.
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.
The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.
The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.
Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.
That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.
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