Firsts Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government.

— Martin Luther King

“Come see the violence inherit in the system!! Help Help I'm being oppressed!!”

— Monty Python and the Holy Grail

They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“In all you do, speak up for the human rights of others. Become the voice for those who face oppression and can't speak for…

— Timothy Pina

I have always admired the courage of ordinary individuals to step up and speak out against injustice and tyranny.

— Pritam Singh

Be rich in expressing yourself in a noble way and you shall never be oppressed without those who can help noticing. Oppression in silence…

— Frank Matobo

“Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every human being, old and young, rich…

— Ron Paul

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

— Bryan Stevenson

I ask you and all the leaders of the world: Would you act differently, would you keep silent and do nothing if you were…

— Miriam Makeba

I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.

— Chen Guangcheng

As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the…

— Vladimir Sorokin