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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Image
The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Image
What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Image
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