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.
It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows.
Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
No man can delegate,... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st person, not only to make the 3rd person his slave, but also a right to dispose of him as a slave to still other persons. Any contract to do this is necessarily a criminal one...To call such a contract a “constitution” does not at all lessen its criminality, or add to its validity.
Every single person, pretty much, is taught what they're supposed to do: go to school, get a job, find someone to love, get married, have kids, raise the kids, and then die. Nobody questions that. What if you want to do something different?
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