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Martin Luther King Jr. on the Good Samaritan

July 19 – The Good Samaritan (Luke 10)

Martin Luther King Jr. said: “I imagine that the first question the priest and Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But by the very nature of his concern, the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’” The difference is the direction of the question — self-protection versus costly compassion.

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