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 delayed is justice denied.
I know that every trial requires fairness and truth. Any trial that abandons the pursuit of truth cannot be considered fair or just.
In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost measure what kind of Justice Department you have by what kind of civil rights division that you have.
The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.
The people who have been unjustly disenfranchised by our criminal justice system and the people who daily fight for them always have, and always will be, the inspiration and focus of my efforts.
Environmental injustice is a tangible, intolerable example of an exhibited moral laxity and minimal concern for healthy standards by corporations and political structures based on the race, ethnicity, and class of those being impacted.
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