| 来源类型 | Article
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| Want to be happier? Take this lesson from Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Arthur C. Brooks
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| 发表日期 | 2019-04-21
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | “I want to turn your attention to this subject: ‘Loving Your Enemies.’ ”
I have recently written a book on that theme, but the words are found in a sermon by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered in Montgomery, Ala., on Nov. 17, 1957. King was referencing the teaching of Jesus in Matthew’s Gospel and exhorting the congregants to live that teaching in their everyday lives.
Noble stuff, you’re probably thinking — so idealistic. But unrealistic and, frankly, impractical. And not just in situations of warfare and violence; in modern American politics, too, where we are as far apart ideologically as we have been at any time since the Civil War. You either show up ready to fight, or you lose, because the other side is playing for keeps, right?
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Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered in Montgomery, Ala., on Nov. 17, 1957. King was referencing the teaching of Jesus in Matthew’s Gospel and exhorting the congregants to live that teaching in their everyday lives. |
| 主题 | Politics and Public Opinion
; Society and Culture
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| 标签 | competition of ideas
; leadership
; Martin Luther King Day
; polarization
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/articles/want-to-be-happier-take-this-lesson-from-martin-luther-king-jr/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/265740
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