Each person must live their life as a model for others.
Rosa ParksRead
Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote questions the value of military victory in relation to the working class.
Rosa Parks highlights the futility of victory in war for the proletariat, suggesting that the glorification of militarism does not benefit ordinary people. Instead, it prompts a reflection on the true costs of conflict and who truly bears the consequences of such victories or defeats.
Themes
VictoryDefeatProletariatMilitarismWar
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about the impact of war on society.
More from Rosa Parks
All quotes βLet us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth.
Rosa ParksRead
All I was trying to do was get home from work.
Rosa ParksRead
It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.
Rosa ParksRead
I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
Rosa ParksRead
When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
Rosa ParksRead
Similar quotes
We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means.
RajneeshRead
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
Arthur SchopenhauerRead
If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
Jose Ortega Y GassetRead
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.
Swami VivekanandaRead
Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.
PrinceRead
Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of wine in your cellar. To drink your last bottle of wine and go to sleep that night and not wake up.
Jay McinerneyRead