Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
Interpretation
This quote celebrates the achievement of freedom and liberation after a long struggle.
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s quote expresses profound relief and gratitude for the attainments of freedom, symbolizing the end of oppression and the joyous embrace of liberation. It encapsulates the emotional and spiritual journey of those who fought for civil rights and serves as a powerful declaration of victory over injustice.
In practice
A speaker at a civil rights rally mentioning this quote to inspire hope.
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.
The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless troops cross the Great River. The peak is a coiled dragon, the city a crouching tiger more dazzling than before. The sky is spinning and the earth upside down. We are elated yet we must use our courage to chase the hopeless enemy. We must not stoop to fame like the overlord Hsiang Yu. If heaven has feeling it will grow old and watch our seas turn into mulberry fields.
Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.
For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.
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