Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of acting now to ensure justice for everyone, regardless of their background.
In this quote, Martin Luther King, Jr. calls for immediate action in creating a just society for all individuals, highlighting the moral responsibility to address injustices and inequality. He frames justice not just as a goal, but as a pressing demand that requires collective effort and urgency, urging everyone to participate in the pursuit of fairness and equality for all people.
In practice
During a speech advocating for civil rights.
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.
If an African-American or a recent immigrant - or anyone else, for that matter - can't feel secure walking into a police station or up to a police officer to report a crime, because of a fear that they're not going to be treated well, then everything else that we promise is on a shaky foundation.
Industrialised countries must take the responsibility of helping poorer countries in the climate change action plan.
The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.
I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system should always take into consideration the special knowledge as to the facts in a case which only the trial judge possesses.
I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It's not academic for me.
Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.
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