Justice Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr · Page 2

A right delayed is a right denied.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

— 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

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

— 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

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

— 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

“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I have a dream, one dream, keep dreaming. Dream of freedom, justice dreaming, dreaming of equality and hopefully no longer required to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

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

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

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper…

— 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

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

These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and…

— 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

When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We are not wrong, we are not wrong in what we are doing. If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.

— Martin Luther King, Jr