There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.
Interpretation
This quote speaks to the fatigue of enduring hardship and longing for better days.
Martin Luther King, Jr. uses the metaphor of seasons to illustrate the transition from the warmth and joy of summer to the cold and isolation of winter. It reflects a universal human experience of growing weary of oppression and longing for the brighter, more hopeful times in life.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a speech on civil rights to inspire those struggling against oppression.
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 are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.
I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.
Women of South Africa are some of the most powerful people on Earth. Change what you believe is possible for yourself.
Fear is not a word in my football documentary.
Πll I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man._x000D_ _x000D_ What I stand for speaks for itself...they don't understand.
One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.
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