Martin Luther King, Jr.:
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are who you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.
(Quoted by Coretta Scott King in the foreword to
Strength to Love, 1963
)
so profoundly and simply true. When one person suffers, the waves of suffering spread in ever bigger circles. If we're going to survive as a species, and a planet, we need this understanding to go global.
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ReplyDeleteThank you for your comments, Tara and robin andrea.
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