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Justice Quotes by 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 on the line…
- America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are…
- A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages…
- We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was…
- All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brother's…
- I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or…
- We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody,…
- We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no…
- I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely ever met a…
- Without justice, there can be no peace.
- Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.
- History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but…
- May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with…
- Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.
- We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout the developing world,…
- When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that…
- This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins…
- We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from…
- Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction…
- I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the…
- To be Negro in America is to hope against hope.
- A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of…
- Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
- Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.
- We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
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- I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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