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's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.
If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the people's desperate need for change.
As soon as something happens to us in America, everyone begins talking about healing. But before you heal, you have to mourn.
We want to overthrow the imperial power not because it is Manchurian but because we want republicanism... We republican revolutionaries can never have the notion of becoming emperors after the revolution, like all the peasant rebels did in the past.
For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.
Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.
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