The road toward equality of freedom is not easy, and great cost and danger march alongside us. We are committed to peaceful and nonviolent change, and that is important for all to understand - though all change is unsettling. Still, even in the turbulence of protest and struggle is greater hope for the future, as men learn to claim and achieve for themselves the rights formerly petitioned from others.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Equality requires risky nonviolent struggle, but protest offers hope and self-empowerment.
- In plain terms
- Fighting for freedom is hard and risky but gives hope.
- What can you take from it?
- Nonviolent struggle brings hope.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is protest worth the danger?
- How do you stay committed?
Another view
Violent struggle sometimes becomes necessary when blocked.
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