The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.
Interpretation
Achieving equality and justice requires both widespread support and determined action.
Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the importance of unity and active commitment in the struggle for equality and justice. He believes that overcoming societal barriers necessitates a collective effort that is both powerful and persistent to effect meaningful change.
In practice
A speaker at a civil rights rally could use this quote to inspire collective action.
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.
We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.
You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.
He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just.
Everyone thinks my story should be marked by heroism, but there was no risk to myself. You see, no-one in Prague at that time thought they were going to be at war with England.
Closing down in the midst of pain is a denial of a man's true nature. A superior man is free in feeling and action, even amidst great pain and hurt. If necessary, a man should live with a hurting heart rather than a closed one. He should learn to stay in the wound of pain and act with spontaneous skill and love even from that place.
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