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.
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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ReplyDeletethis passage it helps a lot! thanks!
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