About this quote

In Rediscovering Lost Values (1954), King uses a direct appeal to responsibility to examine wisdom, with attention to everybody, doing, wrong. The practical center is the relationship between life and doing and wrong, giving readers a specific lens for judgment and action.

When to use it

• A community organizer builds a meeting around everybody before participants choose one measurable action related to wisdom.
• A teacher pairs the passage from Rediscovering Lost Values (1954) with a primary-source exercise about life and public responsibility.
• A team leader uses the tension between doing and wrong to discuss conduct under pressure.