“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King Jr. wrote those words in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail. The hosts discuss this and other modern proverbs with staying power. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Proverbs with Staying Power”
We put the call out a while back for Proverbs, and a lot of people sent us some of their favorites.
Mel sent us a Native American proverb that goes,
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.
It’s true, right?
You take the good with the bad.
Yeah, yeah.
Mel also sent a Swedish one that goes, love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I need it the most.
Oh, that’s nice and true, right?
I like that.
Yeah, and you know, we talked about modern proverbs and what’s taking the place of some of those or lining up alongside those.
And I really like the one that Amy sent from Madison, Wisconsin.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
That, of course, is from Martin Luther King Jr.
Very nice.
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