A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory.
Interpretation
Success is built on a series of smaller achievements, and each one contributes to the overall goal.
In this quote, Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes that attaining a significant victory involves a series of incremental successes. He cautions against minimizing smaller achievements, as they are crucial steps in the broader struggle for justice and equality, indicating that understanding the journey toward full victory requires recognizing the importance of these short-term encounters.
In practice
During a motivational speech to inspire students about the importance of perseverance.
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.
When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don't make money from as a cost.
Discipline - Success doesn't just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.
Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can shrug off a loss, you can never be a winner!
My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their f*****g perch. And you can print that.
It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.
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