When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.
Interpretation
Determination and sacrifice for what is right lead to ultimate victory.
This quote emphasizes the importance of moral conviction and the willingness to fight for justice. When individuals are fully committed to a righteous cause and are prepared to make sacrifices, they can achieve their goals and overcome any obstacles in their path until they attain victory.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to inspire activists fighting for social justice.
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.
Little by little, one travels far
You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.
This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
To dig a straight furrow, the plowman needs to keep his eyes on a fixed point ahead of him. That keeps him on a true course. If, however, he happens to look back to see where he has been, his chances of straying are increased. The results are crooked and irregular furrows...Fix your attention on your...goals and never look back on your earlier problems....If our energies are focused not behind us but ahead of us--on eternal life and the joy of salvation--we assuredly will obtain it.
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.
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