Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

We’re not here to bring politics to our morality, but to bring morality to our politics.

Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.

To be human you must bear witness to justice.

Every generation is confronted anew with the task not to look the other way when injustice occurs. ... Everyone is responsible for what he does and co-responsible for what he lets happen.

We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

The drive to create just societies has been among the fundamental forces in history -- and without doubt no lasting world civilization can be founded unless it is firmly grounded in the principle of justice.

In the Guru's house religion and worldly enjoyment shall be combined—the caldron to supply the poor and the needy, and the scimitar to smite the oppressors.

It is justice not charity that is wanting in the world.

This could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened.

There are times … when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

… the first duty of society is justice.

A time comes when silence is betrayal.

When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn.

To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.

If there is a God, there should be no slaves.