Theodonia Marshall
November 6, 2012
The World House
The World House, a piece of literature written by Martin Luther King Jr, A great civil rights activist/leader, writer, and philosopher. In the passage, he talks about an idea from a famous novelist who died which was “A widely separated family inherits a house which they have to live together.” (J. L. Judith Nadell 597) (J. L. Judith Nadell 597)" \s "A widely separated family inherits a house which they have to live together.\"<>" \c 1 Martin Luther king then builds upon and talked about what he thought about that. In the passage he quotes “We have inherited a great “world house” in which we have to live together”-Black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew,
He explains that it is crucial to pay attention by saying “but today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.”CITATION Mar12 \p 599 \l 1033 (King 599) TA \l "but today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.\”CITATION Mar12 \p 599 \l 1033 (King 599) (King 599)" \s "but today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.\"< CITATION Mar12 \p 599 \l 1033 (King 599) >" \c 1 Saying this he’s talking about in order to advance a people you must continue to be aware and be sort of a sponge to knowledge and ideas and “together we must learn to live as brothers or together we will be forced to perish as fools.”CITATION Mar12 \p 599 \l 1033 (King 599) TA \l "together we must learn to live as brothers or together we will be forced to perish as fools.\”CITATION Mar12 \p 599 \l 1033 (King 599) (King 599)" \s "together we must learn to live as brothers or together we will be forced to perish as fools.\"<>" \c 1
Martin Luther King Believed that “The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.”CITATION Mar12 \p 599