About this quote

In Keep Moving from This Mountain (1960), King uses concrete moral imagery to examine ethics, with attention to first, think, mountain. The practical center is the relationship between education and relativism and enough, giving readers a specific lens for judgment and action.

When to use it

• A community organizer builds a meeting around first before participants choose one measurable action related to ethics.
• A teacher pairs the passage from Keep Moving from This Mountain (1960) with a primary-source exercise about education and public responsibility.
• A team leader uses the tension between think and enough to discuss conduct under pressure.