"I must not ignore the wounded man on life's Jericho Road, because he is a part of me and I am a part of him." This prophetic insight articulated by The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is at the heart of his sermon "On Being a Good Neighbour."

Dr. King's vision of spiritual kinship continues to offer an urgent and stirring call to us today:

"More than ever before, my friends, people of all races and nations are today challenged to be neighbourly. The call for a worldwide good-neighbour policy is more than an ephemeral shibboleth; it is the call to a way of life which will transform our imminent cosmic elegy into a psalm of creative fulfillment.

No longer can we afford the luxury of passing by on the other side. Such folly was once called moral failure; today it will lead to universal suicide. We cannot long survive spiritually separated in a world that is geographically together."

Dr. King's sermon, "On Being a Good Neighbour," appears in his 1963 collection, Strength to Love.