Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you.

Just as we rely on Israel as a continual source of inspiration and renewal, Israel relies on us.

The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

We're now married to the world. But we keep acting like we're on a big date.

Partnership implies that the individual has responsibilities as well as rights.

All people owe their lives to surrounding society.

We live in a society where individual effort and progress is valued, and that's absolutely correct and is as it should be. But we also are interdependent creatures. We can't succeed solely on our own.

Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.

In team tennis, when you're downed, you play harder because there are other people depending upon you.

We all have some basic obligation to one another.

We look at problems happening halfway across the world and we think, 'Well, that's their problem.' But it's not. ... When you solve somebody else's problem, you're solving a problem for yourself because our world today is so interconnected.

The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.

The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.

No one person can fulfill all your needs. But the community can truly hold you. The community can let you experience the fact that, beyond your anguish, there are human hands that hold you and show you God's faithful love.

The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality. ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.

In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.

We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends, in part, on whether we understand this interdependence. It is not someone else's problem. This is everybody's problem.

We fully realize today that victory in war requires a mighty united effort. Certainly, victory in peace calls for, and must receive, an equal effort. Man has learned long ago, that it is impossible to live unto himself. This same basic principle applies today to nations. We were not isolated during the war. We dare not now become isolated in peace.

All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation from others. That is why I believe we must all cultivate a sense of responsibility based on love and compassion for each other.

If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.

The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.