A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory.
Interpretation
Success is built on a series of smaller achievements, and each one contributes to the overall goal.
In this quote, Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes that attaining a significant victory involves a series of incremental successes. He cautions against minimizing smaller achievements, as they are crucial steps in the broader struggle for justice and equality, indicating that understanding the journey toward full victory requires recognizing the importance of these short-term encounters.
In practice
During a motivational speech to inspire students about the importance of perseverance.
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.
The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?
In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved by fair and honest means.
No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.
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