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.
To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.
So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.
Justice is never given; it is exacted.
Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.
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