
1960s, The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)
1960s, The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)
Context: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Therefore, no American can afford to be apathetic about the problem of racial justice. It is a problem that meets every man at his front door.
1960s, The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)
1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Variant: It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.
Source: Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Context: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.
“Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.”
As long as one person suffers unjustly, the whole world suffers. The existence of injustice, violence, and exploitation contaminates and diminishes the whole human community.
Source: Comfort and Protest (1987), p. 66
Reuters (31 March 1998)
“There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.”
“When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere.”
"Sign and Speed," p. 19
The Sign and Its Children (2000), Sequence: “The Sign and Nothing”
“In the world of today can there be peace anywhere until there is peace everywhere?”
The Egyptians (1967), p. 241
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