Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world.

Look at what I've done my entire life. I have been working on behalf of civil rights, women's rights, human rights for years and I know how challenging it is to change our political system and I have the highest regard for those who have put themselves on the line.

I'm not politically vocal. I just want what's best for our country. I want our rights respected and those of my son's.

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

I'm going to fight for human rights, whether I do it silently behind the scenes or vocally so that I get locked up. I can't just sit back; it's not in my nature. I can't sit back and blindly ignore it, and I won't.

The challenge is to become part of the struggle, to make a positive difference.

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

The promotion of human rights remains the most effective strategy for eliminating inequalities between countries and social groups, and for increasing security.

Where was the libertarian right during the great struggles for individual liberty in America in the last half-century? The libertarian movement has been conspicuously absent from the campaigns for civil rights for nonwhites, women, gays and lesbians.

There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

What's great about it is that you see, the great struggle for gay people is that the politics is just not going to work for us.

We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.

I will always work for human rights for all people.

So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds.

We don't have rights until we claim them.

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.