Here are some thoughts from MLK on his birthday, with Haiti in mind:

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow
confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all
humanity.

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Make a career of humanity … and you will make a greater person of
yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

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And one more:

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a
"person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives
and property rights are considered more important than people, the
giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of
being conquered.