Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.
Interpretation
The quote calls for unity and determination to improve America during challenging times.
In this quote, Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the importance of readiness and determination in the face of challenges. He encourages individuals to come together with a strong resolve to enact change and make America a better nation, highlighting the unique opportunity that difficult times present for significant progress and improvement.
In practice
This quote can inspire a community meeting focused on social change.
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.
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.
Nobody who gets too damned relaxed builds up much flying time.
Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.
Watch the film, not the stopwatch.
In order to build our nation, we must all exceed our own expectations.
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