Martin Luther King, Jr. - We must learn to live together...
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Martin Luther King, Jr. - We must learn to live together...
We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools. This is the great challenge of the hour. This is true of individuals. It is true of nations. No individual can live alone. No nation can live alone. —MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Thubten Chodron • An Open-Hearted Life: Transformative Methods for Compassionate Living from a Clinical Psychologist and a Buddhist Nun
As Martin [Luther] King points out so very well, when Jesus said to love thy enemy [Matthew 5:44], he was not talking about friendship love, nor was he talking about romantic love. [1] He was not talking about deep liking and appreciation. He was talking about what the Quakers and William Penn pledged to the Native Americans during colonial times: ... See more
Violence Begets Violence
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
There are very strong words of Martin Luther King. His question was always, how is it that one group—the white group—can despise another group, which is the black group. And will it always be like this? Will we always be having an elite condemning or pushing down others that they consider not worthy? And he says something I find extremely beautiful
... See moreKrista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
Focus on what we have in common, not our differences. Paul tells us, “Let us concentrate on the things which make for harmony, and on the growth of one another’s character.”
Rick Warren • The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
“Their cause must be our cause, too,” Lyndon Johnson said. “Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice.”