About this quote

In Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965), King uses a focused ethical claim to examine wisdom, with attention to falls, category, ordinary. The practical center is the relationship between life and ordinary and extraordinary, giving readers a specific lens for judgment and action.

When to use it

• A community organizer builds a meeting around falls before participants choose one measurable action related to wisdom.
• A teacher pairs the passage from Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965) with a primary-source exercise about life and public responsibility.
• A team leader uses the tension between category and extraordinary to discuss conduct under pressure.