Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law

I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

Discrimination is a disease.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

Laws are only words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool.

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.

There's no question but that the justice system sucks.

And Justice for Some

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

To attempt to explain a system like segregation to a 6 year child is a very difficult thing.

Slavery was gone but its inequalities remained.