This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy - a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the aspiration for true equality and justice in American democracy.
Martin Luther King, Jr. articulates the vision of an America where democracy is fully realized through the fulfillment of equal opportunities for all its citizens. He emphasizes the importance of distributing wealth and privileges equitably, advocating for a society in which basic needs are met for everyone rather than allowing the few to thrive at the expense of the many.
In practice
In a speech about social justice, refer to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s quote to emphasize the need for equality in our society.
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.
Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it but if you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
In mountaineering, there is not only the activity, but the philosophy behind it. Some say a moral, but I am against that because all morality is dangerous.
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
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