Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

There's so much corruption in America; there's so much corruption around the world. It's all coming to the surface thanks to the Internet, and thanks to the younger people who are saying, 'We don't like corrupt people.'

Certainly he [Richard M. Nixon] is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy.

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

We're in this amazing frontier of transparency. WikiLeaks. Edward Snowden. 'Westworld' is reflecting that with these robots gaining consciousness. Them coming into consciousness is almost like us, human beings, coming into the truth of the fact that government is corrupt. Police are corrupt. Banks are corrupt. Etcetera, etcetera.

I never took a bribe. This is the truth, and there is no other.

When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business.

Life remains the same for me. It's always been a battle against injustice and corruption. That battle goes on.

I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.

I don't know what it's going to take for people to really wake up and understand that they [the Bush administration] are liars and they are murderers.

Walking in the light means we pursue obedience and are honest about our remaining darkness.

Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned "noble lie" ultimately discredits the finest of causes.

The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous.

The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep he waters pure.

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics for unworthy purposes.

I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it's so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power, finding out the truth, of shining a light on injustice, of, when appropriate, being amusing and entertaining - it's a complicated and varied beast, journalism.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured.

I scream, you scream, we all scream... for the truth.