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.
Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.
Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Fergusons' around America.
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
Those labeled felons may be denied the right to vote, are automatically excluded from juries, and may be legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education, public benefits, much like their grandparents or great grandparents may have been discriminated against during the Jim Crow era.
We treat Black and brown kids who can't vote yet, can't join the military, can't rent a car or even buy a lottery ticket - like adults in our criminal legal system. We deprive them of their joy and their youth. Children who deserve to live rich and abundant lives.
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.
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