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.
There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.
The number one taboo for boys is to be feminine, so for someone to not only override their internal directive but society's directive is mind-boggling and heroic. It's courageous.
If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.
Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
I think there was a reason God helped me escape... and I don't take my freedom for granted.
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