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.
The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.
I know that when a fighter is out of the ring for more than two years, when he comes back he isn't the same anymore. Each fighter is different. But each must think, even if something goes wrong, 'I have to make this decision and live with it for the rest of my life.'
When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.
Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.
I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.
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