The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.
Interpretation
Achieving equality and justice requires both widespread support and determined action.
Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the importance of unity and active commitment in the struggle for equality and justice. He believes that overcoming societal barriers necessitates a collective effort that is both powerful and persistent to effect meaningful change.
In practice
A speaker at a civil rights rally could use this quote to inspire collective action.
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 martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.
What doesn't kill me just makes me stronger
First, I am afraid to die and I love to live. But an adventure is only an adventure when there is the threat of dying.
Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to choose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.
The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.
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