Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will always be a slave. For all another man needs to do is threaten to take your life to get you to do his bidding.
Interpretation
True freedom comes from having a purpose greater than oneself.
This quote emphasizes the importance of having a deep-seated purpose or cause that transcends individual existence. Martin Luther King, Jr. suggests that without such a purpose, individuals may find themselves subservient to others, easily manipulated by fears for their own survival. In essence, to truly live freely, one must prioritize ideals that surpass mere self-interest.
In practice
This quote could be used in a motivational speech about finding one's purpose in life.
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 is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.
I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.
People who study the way religions develop have shown that if you have a charismatic teacher, and you don't have an institution develop around that teacher within about a generation to transmit succession within the group, the movement just dies.
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