We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of taking action today rather than procrastinating for tomorrow.
Martin Luther King, Jr. warns against procrastination by illustrating its consequences through the historical lens of civilizations that have fallen into neglect. The phrase 'tomorrow is today' serves as a reminder that the choices we delay now will affect our future, and therefore, we must act swiftly to avoid the regret of 'too late.'
In practice
In a motivational speech about time management.
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.
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.
Dreams and actions are not so different as usually thought, as all actions of men are founded upon dreams, and their end - is a dream too.
Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
If you want to play something that you can't, you need to see and hear yourself doing it in your minds eye. It will start to happen
To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish
The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.
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