Injustice Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

‎It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

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

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

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

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

[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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

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

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

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

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

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

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