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.
I am certainly not a martyr kind of a person. I love my life. But if one has to, then there is nothing more nobler a cause that I can think of.
The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.
I take the medication for myself so I can transact, not for anyone else. But I am aware that it is empowering for people to see what I do and, for the most part, people in the Parkinson's community are just really happy that Parkinson's is getting mentioned, and not in a pitying way.
I'm gay and always have been, even when I was David Jones.
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.
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