Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.
Interpretation
Worship is inherent to humanity, just as the sun's song is intrinsic to the universe.
In this quote, Martin Luther King, Jr. suggests that worship is a fundamental aspect of being human. Just as the presence and movement of the sun are essential to the existence of the cosmos, so too is the act of worship an essential element that connects humanity to something greater than itself, reflecting a deep-seated need for spirituality and reverence in human life.
In practice
During a speech about community values, the quote can reinforce the importance of collective worship and connection.
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.
I want to think and at the same time that's the last thing in the world I want to do.
The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we going to preserve the religious base to our origin, our growth and our progress, or yield to the devious assaults of atheistic or other anti-religious forces? Are we going to maintain our present course toward State Socialism with Communism just beyond or reverse the present trend and regain our hold upon our heritage of liberty and freedom?
Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.
Because of poverty, we must adopt the capitalist means of production to develop our resources to get rich. However, if we ignore the issue of social justice at the beginning of China's industrialization, we will sow the seeds of class warfare in the future.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.
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