Tuesday, May 22, 2012


My favorite passage from Martin Luther King's letter is “I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.”I think what he was saying are one day people we understand each other’s and no one will judge you by your color.
My second favorite passage from Dalai Lama is "peace in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience; it does not comfort those who have lost their loved once in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nation are free."
My own ideas on a habit are peace is  the most imported think in life. Also stop the wars that are going on around the world.

3 comments:

  1. As Dalai says peace is the absent of war, so if we having wars going on where is the Peace?? I agree with you :)

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  2. i really like your picture :) is beatiful !

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  3. this passage it helps a lot! thanks!

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