Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
Interpretation
Freedom should not be pursued through negative emotions like bitterness and hatred.
In this quote, Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the importance of pursuing freedom through positive means rather than succumbing to negative feelings such as bitterness and hatred. He suggests that true liberation cannot be achieved by harboring ill will; instead, it requires a more compassionate and constructive approach to social justice and equality.
In practice
In a speech about civil rights, you might say, 'Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.'
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.
Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss
The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer.
Whites often respond defensively when linked to other whites as a group or 'accused' of collectively benefiting from racism, because as individuals, each white person is 'different' from any other white person and expects to be seen as such.
... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole.
Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) is to the heart as water is to a fish; see what happens to a fish when it is taken out of water
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.
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