We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
Interpretation
The quote expresses hope in the justice system and the belief that it can provide fairness.
In this quote, Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the importance of faith in justice and the belief that it is still attainable, even amidst challenges and failures. He insists that the concept of justice should not be seen as exhausted or devoid of value, and he urges society to remain steadfast in the pursuit of equity and moral righteousness. King's words inspire perseverance and optimism in the struggle for civil rights and social justice.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech advocating for social justice reforms.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the problem of mass incarceration is just too big, too daunting for us to do anything about and that we should instead direct our energies to battles that might be more easily won, history will judge us harshly. A human rights nightmare is occurring on our watch.
Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.
The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.
Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.
Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.
I believe that he who has less in life should have more in law.
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