Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
Interpretation
Struggle for freedom is continuous and requires consistent effort from each generation.
Coretta Scott King's quote emphasizes that the fight for freedom and justice is an ongoing endeavor. It highlights the importance of perseverance and the need for each generation to actively participate in achieving and maintaining freedom, suggesting that it is not a one-time victory but a responsibility passed down through time.
In practice
During a speech on civil rights, one might use this quote to inspire activists.
I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy. The civil rights movement thrives on unity and inclusion, not division and exclusion. My husband's struggle parallels that of the gay rights movement.
...We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination, we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality.
I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.
It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.
Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a rich storehouse of experiences, much like everyone else, yet unique in my own way, much like everyone else.
People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.
I don't want to be a dissident. But in the same time, I don't want to go back home and be silent again.
I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.
Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.
In all my life, I've been trained that when there's a big problem, you run toward it.
Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
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