Мартин Лютер Кинг: Цитаты о мужчинах
Мартин Лютер Кинг было американский общественный деятель, борец за гражданские права. Откройте для себя интересные цитаты о мужчины.
Stride Toward Freedom: the Montgomery Story (1958)
Источник: Биография Кинга Мартина Лютера, [http://www.biografguru.ru/ http://www.biografguru.ru/about/king/?q=3307,, 2010-12-12, ru]
Из речи Мартина Лютера Кинга у монумента Линкольна в Вашингтоне, 28 августа 1963 г.
We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.
You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November. There comes a time.
The real danger confronting civilization today is that atomic bomb which lies in the hearts and souls of men, capable of exploding into the vilest of hate and into the most damaging selfishness—that's the atomic bomb that we've got to fear today. Problem is with the men. Within the heart and the souls of men. That is the real basis of our problem.
An Individual has not started living fully until they can rise above the narrow confines of individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of humanity. Every person must decide at some point, whether they will walk in light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment: Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'