“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
I believe that Dr.King meant that if people do not speak up, then nothing will change and the rest of their lives won't matter. When people do nothing to make a change, then it's like their already dead and can't do anything.
It was relevant for the time period because many African Americans sat around letting America push them around. People weren't standing up and demanding what the Constitution and Emancipation Proclamation promised them as American citizens.
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