"And now he has found Truth and knows himself.
#The true measure of a man martin luther king trial
"For this he went over a long road from trial to trial, from initiation to initiation, through failures and falls. His views are humbling, inspiring, empowering, and enlightening. The Measure of a Man focuses on two points: 1)What is the worth of a person 2)The dimensions of a complete life. "In his own soul appears the gallows on which he hangs in suffering, feeling that he is indeed inverted. Martin Luther King writes in a potent and eloquent style infused with divine wisdom.
And the incommensurableness of the small and the great in his soul constitutes his pain and his golgotha. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and. "He is still a man, but he already knows much of what is inaccessible even to Gods. Faith is taking the first step even when you dont see the whole staircase. Suffering awaits the man on earth, who finds the way to eternity and to the understanding of the Endless. Ouspensky Russian esotericist 1878 - 1947Ĭontext: And then I saw a man in terrible suffering, hung by one leg, head downward, to a high tree. „He knows that it is he who stands before an altar with magic symbols, and reaches from earth to heaven that he also walks on a dusty road under a scorching sun to a precipice where a crocodile awaits him“ I blast out the ghastly contents of philosophically whited sepulchers and laugh with sardonic wrath! I gaze into the glassy eye of your fearsome Jehovah, and pluck him by the beard I uplift a broad-axe, and split open his worm-eaten skull! I raise up in stern invasion the standard of the strong! I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness. No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen! Martin Luther King JR On August 28, 1963, some 100 years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves, a young man named Martin Luther King climbed the marble steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent mad redeemer, and write over his thorn-torn brow: The TRUE prince of evil - the king of slaves! I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.īefore none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith "thou shalt" to me is my mortal foe! Open your eyes that you may see, Oh men of mildewed minds, and listen to me ye bewildered millions!įor I stand forth to challenge the wisdom of the world to interrogate the "laws" of man and of "God"! To the North and to the South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong! Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.„I stand forth to challenge the wisdom of the world to interrogate the "laws" of man and of "God"!“Ĭontext: In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’ A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges. We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.Įvery man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.Ĭhange does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
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