We cannot afford to regard as normal the presence of injustice, inhumanity, and violence, including their verbal and cyber manifestations.
Interpretation
We must not accept or normalize injustice and violence in any form.
This quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing and challenging injustice, inhumanity, and violence in all its forms, including verbal and online. It calls for a collective responsibility to foster a society where these negative elements are not treated as a normal part of life, but rather as issues that need to be actively addressed and eliminated.
In practice
In a speech addressing civil rights issues.
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.
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.
Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.
Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement.
My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren.
In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed.
Those who peacefully gather to express sympathy for the family of Michael Brown must have their rights respected at all times. And journalists must not be harassed or prevented from covering a story that needs to be told.
America has an obligation to secure its borders, but it is wrong to pass laws that treat human beings as something less than human. If my father were alive, he would be in the forefront of the struggle for a fair and humane reform of our immigration laws.
Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.
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