Years later, as a professor, Martin would try to find the words to articulate the power of togetherness in a world where togetherness had been corrupted -- and to explore the effect of the music, the surprising lengths the people had gone to to hear it and to play it, as evidence that music, and art in general, are basic requirements of the human soul. Not a luxury but a compulsion. He will think of it every time he goes to a museum or a concert or a play with a long line of people waiting to get inside. Jessica Shattuck
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Years later, as a professor, Martin will try to find the words to articulate the power of togetherness in a world where togetherness has been corrupted. The damage done by the breakdown in communication that took place during the Civil Rights era. Years later, he will look back at that time and think of it as a time when people were not willing to listen to one another. They would not listen because they were too busy listening to their own version of what was best for them.

No longer would they listen to one another because they did not want anyone else’s opinion. They would not listen because they did not want anyone else’s influence on them. They would not listen because they did not want to be influenced by anyone else.

And, ultimately, they would not listen because they did not want to hear what was really being said. When Martin looks back at that time in history he will think of the terrible damage that has been done because people could no longer see beyond their own needs and fears.

Source: The Women In The Castle

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