The past couple of weeks I've been collecting quotes about the heart. I found this one below [the part in gray] by Martin Luther King, Jr. over the weekend. Unfortunately, it was too lengthy for what I was going to use it for, but I think it's just beautiful and will have to use it on down the road. Then I learned where it came from & it was from his Nobel Lecture the day after he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.
"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meaning can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. Such is the moment I am presently experiencing. I experience this high and joyous moment not for myself alone but for those devotees of nonviolence who have moved so courageously against the ramparts of racial injustice and who in the process have acquired a new estimate of their own human worth. Many of them are young and cultured. Others are middle aged and middle class. The majority are poor and untutored. But they are all united in the quiet conviction that it is better to suffer in dignity than to accept segregation in humiliation. These are the real heroes of the freedom struggle: they are the noble people for whom I accept the Nobel Peace Prize." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
I also loved ... "a new estimate of their own human worth". I think it's so ironic that this statement was led by him saying some things just can't be expressed in words. I don't think anyone could have described it better or more beautifully. :)
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