Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.

I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.

I am convinced Socialism is the only answer.

Socialism is easily understood by any child. It is taking other people's stuff.

Democratic socialism means that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.

Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state.

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

The reason I like socialism is that it's kind of enforced Christianity. It's basically very Christian, in the sense of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." These people have nothing, so you have to share.

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.

Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve.

Socialism is about claims of justice, and it is also about money: about wealth, income, physical and financial capital. It is an ideology based on allocating economic resources. It may try to achieve that goal by nationalizing assets, by command-and-control regulation, or by taxation and redistribution.

We approach closer and closer to socialism.

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

…people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things the government does for others as socialism.

Our intention is not to replace socialism by some other system, but to reinforce it.

… that veiled sister of communism – legalistic socialism

We are all socialists now.

Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.

This is mere socialism. Every Socialist and Communist in the country has been supporting the proposed legislation since it was first dreamed up and submitted to Congress.

I think democratic socialism will ultimately prevail in this country because it makes an enormous amount of sense.

People have to take socialism and anyone running on a socialist platform incredibly seriously.