Dr. King's Quote Today

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One of Dr. King's famous quote today is “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” People use this in their daily lives to help themselves and help others. Dr. King himself was a very inspiration person. He help many people through rough times, and he still does. He taught us that even though life may be hard now, if we keep a positive side on our side, everything will become great. Its that same thing with his quote here. In this famous quote, he is saying that we have to put ourselves in other people's shoe in order to understand our life and of course the life of another human begin.
To me, I believe this quote says a lot about today’s society. Most people don’t understand this quote until they get older in age. The whole reason why most of the people can’t put themselves into other people’s shoe is because as a young adult, we have many challenges facing us. We have to worry about school,
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Another thing I will have to think about is how I will pay for my meal plans for college. All of these things are running through my mind as I am about to set in for college. So at this point in my life, I have to focus on myself and no one else than myself. But when I get to the age around 70, I will have a home that will be payed off and possibly be retired from my job. So at the age, I can start putting myself in peoples shoes. I might donate clothes to the Salvation Army because I know someone will desperately need a coat in the winter time. I might donate money to the kids in Africa that are starving to death and need clean water to survive. And maybe, I might donate blood to a person that is facing death and needs blood for survival. All of these things follow Dr. Kings quote, to always put others before

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