Though spoken many years ago, these words by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. are still powerfully true today.
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”I feel this occurs when we allow so-called 'science and logic' to give explained reason for our actions, rather than doing what is unexplainably right.
Dr. King said further,
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”No matter if I am right or wrong, let me speak up and know that I am alive, expressing that which I believe.
4 comments:
//No matter if I am right or wrong// (?) Surely you jest! : )
To speak off the mark is misleading and can cause great harm. You really think that it is better to spout in ignorance than to be silent?
To be silent when you know the truth should be spoken seems to be the evil Dr. King was referring to here.
K-Sra, i am not sure i understand your last sentence, but let me attempt and see if this makes sense, or digs the hole deeper.
In this case the jester did not show up, though i can see how this has been relayed in words to be thought of as 'spouting of' in utter ignorance.
My quotes as of late have been building off one another. And so sometimes my expression of personal belief builds from previous. A few days back, Einstein quoted, //"The search for truth and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man..."// and today i voiced, //I find my strength in Truth; to seek it, unveil it...//
I agree with you that voicing ill truths bring harm and evil. My expression is to voice that which i know and feel to be truth, even though someone else may disagree and see it to be wrong. That is what I meant in //right or wrong//.
In my mind and in conclusion, I have a responsibility to seek truth before speaking, but once found, i must speak 'if it matters.'
//but once found, i must speak 'if it matters.'//
And that should pretty well sum up my last confusing sentence as well. : )
I understood what you were implying, but didn't care for the use of the words "right and wrong."
Carry on and don't mind me in the peanut gallery! : )
troublemaker...
and not to start something from it, but there's'only 'one' gallery, and we're all in it.
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