I feel George Wallace symbolizes something in the past which America has rejected.
Interpretation
George Wallace represents a past ideology that America has moved away from.
In this quote, Coretta Scott King suggests that George Wallace, known for his segregationist policies, embodies a mindset and values that America has consciously decided to reject. It reflects the nation's evolution and moral progress, indicating a shift away from racism and division towards unity and inclusivity.
In practice
In a speech about civil rights, I might quote this to highlight societal progress.
I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy. The civil rights movement thrives on unity and inclusion, not division and exclusion. My husband's struggle parallels that of the gay rights movement.
...We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination, we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality.
I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.
It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.
Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a rich storehouse of experiences, much like everyone else, yet unique in my own way, much like everyone else.
People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.
Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past and the futures is that one has happened while the other has not. Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time. Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...) Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon. Lies 7: Reality is truth.
The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning.
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it
Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.
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