In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of active participation in social progress and change.
Martin Luther King Jr. highlights that during times of significant transformation, there is no option to step back or retreat; instead, individuals must actively engage with the movement for progress or risk being left behind. The quote serves as a rallying call for people to join the fight for justice and equality, indicating that inaction will lead to obsolescence in the face of advancing societal change.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about social justice to encourage active involvement.
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.
It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.
Thankfully dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses. So whatever your dream is right now, if you don't achieve it, you haven't failed and you're not some loser-but just as importantly-if you do get your dream, you're not a winner.
Let's say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don't think we have a new Nigeria yet.
For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.
What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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