You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the inevitability of resistance and the moment when people reject oppression.
Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes that there is a breaking point for individuals who endure consistent oppression. As people grow weary of being marginalized and mistreated, they reach a moment of awakening and decide to stand against the forces that have trampled their rights and dignity.
In practice
In a speech about social justice and equality.
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.
Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.
I do not identify as a person with a disability. I'm a disabled person. And I'll be a monkey's disabled uncle if I'm going to apologise for that.
It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.
Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.
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