we are all part of the same story

what's happening is bigger than each of us.

"This problem of spiritual and moral lag, which constitutes modern man's chief dilemma, expresses itself in three larger problems which grow out of man's ethical infantilism. Each of these problems, while appearing to be separate and isolated, is inextricably bound to the other. I refer to racial injustice, poverty, and war."

- The Quest for Peace and Justice, Dr. King
Nobel Prize Speech, Dec. 11, 1964

then

now

For some strange We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly."Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood. But somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this. The reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured."

Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution, Dr. King

Trauma

From: The Body Keeps Score, Prologue

Author: Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.