We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering in the heat of injustice and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Certainly I'm not saying that you sit down and patiently accept injustice. I'm talking about a very strong force, where you stand… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their "thus… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth, — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share
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