«You are caught in inescapable network of mutuality,
Tied in a single garment of destiny
And whatever affects one directly
Affects all indirectly.
For some strange reason I can never be what ought to be
Until you are what you are ought to be.
The rich man can never be what he ought to be
And the poor man what he ought to be.
John Donne caught it years ago and placed it in graphic terms:
«No man is an island entire of itself.
Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.»
And he goes on toward the end to say,
«Any man’s death diminishes me
because I am involved in mankind;
therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
it tolls for thee.»»
Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3owTkyryRw