The bottom line is, if you stay home, your message stays home with you. If you stand for justice and equality, you have an obligation to find the biggest possible megaphone to let your feelings be known. Don't let your message be buried and don't bury yourself.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of actively advocating for justice and equality rather than remaining silent.
John Carlos urges individuals to take action and amplify their voices in the fight for justice and equality. Staying silent not only keeps important messages hidden but also prevents the individual from fulfilling their responsibility to raise awareness and foster change. By encouraging people to seek out prominent platforms for their messages, Carlos highlights the importance of vocal advocacy in creating a more just society.
In practice
This quote could be used during a rally to inspire participants to speak out.
In life, there's the beginning and the end. The beginning don't matter. The end don't matter. All that matters is what you do in between – whether you're prepared to do what it takes to make change. There has to be physical and material sacrifice. When all the dust settles and we're getting ready to play down for the ninth inning, the greatest reward is to know that you did your job when you were here on the planet.
The beginning don't matter. The end don't matter. All that matters is what you do in between...the greatest reward is to know that you did your job when you were here on the planet.
How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know the United States Army will live up to its reputation for imagination, resourcefulness, and spirit as we meet this challenge.
I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.
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