“I am speaking of a practical materialism, which means living as if there were nothing else that had reality but fame and material objects.”
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Source: Keep Moving from This Mountain (1960)
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In Keep Moving from This Mountain (1960), King uses a focused ethical claim to examine honesty, with attention to speaking, practical, materialism. The practical center is the relationship between economic justice and material and objects, giving readers a specific lens for judgment and action.
When to use it
- A community organizer builds a meeting around speaking before participants choose one measurable action related to honesty.
- A teacher pairs the passage from Keep Moving from This Mountain (1960) with a primary-source exercise about economic justice and public responsibility.
- A team leader uses the tension between practical and objects to discuss conduct under pressure.