How do we expect change to occur if we are not willing to put on the whole armor of God and fight injustice wherever it raises its ugly head?
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the need for active participation and sacrifice in the fight against injustice.
Bernice King highlights the necessity of being fully prepared to confront and challenge injustice. By invoking the metaphor of putting on the 'whole armor of God', she suggests that one must be equipped with moral strength and conviction in order to effectively engage in the struggle for change, rather than remaining passive or complacent.
In practice
In a speech about community activism, one might quote this to encourage participation in social movements.
I didn't have a father to deal with about boyfriends. I didn't have a father to show me how a man and woman relate in a family setting. Therefore, I have given over my life to mentoring young people. I'm adamant about young people who have been denied a father/daughter relationship.
We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.
Seek out your brothers and sisters of other cultures and join together in building alliances to put an end to all forms of racial discrimination, bigotry, and prejudice. There are people of good will of all races, religions, and nations who will join you in common quest for the betterment of society.
My mother was the strong wife, partner, and co-worker Martin Luther King, Jr. needed to be an effective leader, and he said so on many occasions.
One person cannot be blamed for years of problems as it relates to race in America. This is something that has been with us since the founding of this nation. I mean, we were founded with slaves.
If each of us works toward making a sincere effort when we wake up each morning with a renewed commitment and dedication to embracing nonviolence as a lifestyle, this world will become a better place, bringing us ever closer to the Beloved Community of which my father so often spoke.
Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.
What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible.
there on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings of greatness.
I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
The world is full of cravens who pretended to be heroes.
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