Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.
Interpretation
Evil should be confronted relentlessly and consistently through efforts for justice.
In this quote, Martin Luther King Jr. emphasizes the importance of actively fighting against evil and injustice in society. He likens this struggle to a continual assault, suggesting that just as a battering ram repeatedly strikes a fortress, efforts for justice must be persistent and unwavering to overcome oppression and wrongdoing.
In practice
In a speech advocating for social justice, one could assert, 'Evil must be attacked by... the day to day assault of the battering rams of 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.
In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices.
People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
Justice delayed is democracy denied.
The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial, speaks for itself. No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias.
It cannot bring back and make whole those who suffered and died by a racist's criminal hand. But it can at least reaffirm our nation's commitment to seek the truth and make equal justice a reality.
Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest of creation, it's unlikely we'll be able to overcome the status quo.
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