Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation.
Interpretation
A truly great nation shows compassion and empathy towards its people and others.
This quote by Martin Luther King Jr. emphasizes the importance of compassion as a cornerstone of national greatness. It suggests that the measure of a nation's strength lies not only in its power or wealth but in its ability to care for and uplift the less fortunate, advocating for a society defined by empathy and moral responsibility.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about social justice at a community gathering.
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.
Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.
There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.
What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that hope of glory, which they have, who in sincerity love and follow our Lord Jesus Christ?
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