There are two modern-day heroes whose work and philosophies I research—Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. Both have been concerned in a lifetime of passionate work making an attempt to hunt justice. Our nation celebrates Martin Luther King tomorrow.
King acquired the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. The Nobel winners give an acceptance speech. King’s is above and is worthy of taking a couple of minutes to look at and ponder.
There can be a lecture given by the award winners the place they describe the historical past and background of their discoveries and prize-awarded work. I recommend that King’s Nobel prize lecture remains to be irrelevant as we speak. One a part of that lecture famous:
Modern man has introduced this entire world to an awe-inspiring threshold of the longer term. He has reached new and astonishing peaks of scientific success. He has produced machines that suppose and devices that peer into the unfathomable ranges of interstellar area. He has constructed gigantic bridges to span the seas and gargantuan buildings to kiss the skies. His airplanes and spaceships have dwarfed distance, positioned time in chains, and carved highways by way of the stratosphere. This is a blinding image of contemporary man’s scientific and technological progress.
Yet, despite these spectacular strides in science and know-how, and nonetheless limitless ones to return, one thing fundamental is lacking. There is a kind of poverty of the spirit which stands in obvious distinction to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have now turn out to be materially, the poorer we have now turn out to be morally and spiritually. We have realized to fly the air like birds and swim the ocean like fish, however we have now not realized the easy artwork of dwelling collectively as brothers.
Every man lives in two realms, the interior and the exterior. The inner is that realm of religious ends expressed in artwork, literature, morals, and faith. The exterior is that complicated of units, methods, mechanisms, and instrumentalities via which we reside. Our downside as we speak is that we have now allowed the interior to turn out to be misplaced within the exterior. We have allowed the means by which we reside to outdistance the ends for which we reside. So a lot of contemporary life might be summarized in that arresting dictum of the poet Thoreau1: ‘Improved means to an unimproved end’. This is the intense predicament, the deep and haunting downside confronting fashionable man. If we’re to outlive as we speak, our ethical and religious ‘lag’ should be eradicated. Enlarged materials powers spell enlarged peril if there may be not proportionate progress of the soul. When the ‘without’ of man’s nature subjugates the ‘within’, darkish storm clouds start to type on this planet.
King’s world additionally impacted property insurance coverage as I’ll clarify in tomorrow’s put up.
Thought For the Day
The time is at all times proper to do what is correct.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.