The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the rapid progress of nations toward independence compared to the slow progress in civil rights.
Martin Luther King Jr. contrasts the swift advancements of Asian and African nations in achieving political independence with the sluggish pace of progress in the United States regarding civil rights for African Americans. He emphasizes the urgency and necessity for immediate action and change in the fight for equality and justice.
In practice
During a civil rights rally to inspire activists.
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 running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.
Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.
More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger.
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
My hope is that the corona crisis will help bring us into a new age of cooperation and solidarity and a realization that we're in this together.
Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.
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