Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of acting now to ensure justice for everyone, regardless of their background.
In this quote, Martin Luther King, Jr. calls for immediate action in creating a just society for all individuals, highlighting the moral responsibility to address injustices and inequality. He frames justice not just as a goal, but as a pressing demand that requires collective effort and urgency, urging everyone to participate in the pursuit of fairness and equality for all people.
In practice
During a speech advocating for civil rights.
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.
If you're not thinking about the way systemic bias can be propagated through the criminal justice system or predictive policing, then it's very likely that, if you're designing a system based on historical data, you're going to be perpetuating those biases.
We treat Black and brown kids who can't vote yet, can't join the military, can't rent a car or even buy a lottery ticket - like adults in our criminal legal system. We deprive them of their joy and their youth. Children who deserve to live rich and abundant lives.
I can't identify a race of people in this country who are more committed to the health of this country, who believe more in the Constitution, who believe more in equality and liberation and fairness to everyone else than black people.
Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.
Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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