Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of commitment to the ongoing fight for a better world despite the challenges involved.
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s quote inspires us to engage deeply in the arduous journey toward social justice and positive transformation. It highlights the dual nature of struggle, recognizing it as both painful and valuable in the quest for a better future. The call to 'begin' and 'rededicate' ourselves indicates the need for renewed dedication to causes that require persistent effort and resilience.
In practice
This quote can be used during a rally for social justice to inspire participants.
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.
There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.
I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.
If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.
We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.
The world is no longer against us.
You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.
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