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Source: Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965)
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In Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965), King uses a focused ethical claim to examine wisdom, with attention to strangely, enough, never. The practical center is the relationship between life and ought and until, giving readers a specific lens for judgment and action.
When to use it
- A community organizer builds a meeting around strangely 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 enough and until to discuss conduct under pressure.

