Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Address at the Fiftieth Annual NAACP Convention." The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume V: Threshold of a New Decade, January 1959-December 1960, edited by Clayborne Carson, University of California Press, 2005, p. 248.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi. He was the son of early civil rights activist Martin Luther King Sr.