“An individual who is not concerned about his selfhood and his freedom is at that moment committing moral and spiritual suicide, and you are standing up to the great determination.”
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Source: Keep Moving from This Mountain (1960)
About this quote
In Keep Moving from This Mountain (1960), King uses a focused ethical claim to examine justice, with attention to individual, concerned, selfhood. The practical center is the relationship between ethics and great and determination, giving readers a specific lens for judgment and action.
When to use it
- A community organizer builds a meeting around individual before participants choose one measurable action related to justice.
- A teacher pairs the passage from Keep Moving from This Mountain (1960) with a primary-source exercise about ethics and public responsibility.
- A team leader uses the tension between concerned and determination to discuss conduct under pressure.