When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.
Interpretation
Determination and sacrifice for what is right lead to ultimate victory.
This quote emphasizes the importance of moral conviction and the willingness to fight for justice. When individuals are fully committed to a righteous cause and are prepared to make sacrifices, they can achieve their goals and overcome any obstacles in their path until they attain victory.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to inspire activists fighting for social justice.
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.
There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments , but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.
If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today?
You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe this is the only reason you do not see it.
Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. The world doesn’t need any more gray. On the other hand, we can’t get enough color. Mediocrity is nobody’s goal and perfection shouldn’t be either. We’ll never be perfect. But remember these three P’s: Passion + Persistence = Possibility.
The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that that passion is the most important part. It's not skills or talent or any of that stuff.
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