Quote of the Day (Martin Luther King Jr., on ‘The Good Neighbor’)

“The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.”—American civil-rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), Strength to Love (1963)

Quote of the Day (Martin Luther King Jr., on the ‘Good Neighbor’)

“The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.” ―U.S. civil-rights advocate and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968), Strength to Love (1963)

Quote of the Day (Jane Addams, on the Motive Behind Universal Brotherhood)

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”—Anti-poverty activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams (1860-1935), Twenty Years at Hull House (1910)

(Photograph of Addams 1914, from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division)