Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.

In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.

There is despair, Mr President, in the faces of those you do not see; in the places that you do not visit.

There are just way too many people suffering out there.

I spent a long time reporting on trans issues, and I know in the course of that reporting I saw how deeply adversity runs.

We have suffered discrimination. We have suffered isolation and undermining. But we stand up for America, oftentimes when others who think they are more patriotic, who say they are more patriotic, do not.

The more that I learn about what's going on, it's really hard to ignore the oppression that people are actually going through.

What I think I learned from working on 'Moonlight' is you see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

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.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere.

I am disgusted and worn out with the system that seems to prevail.

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

I am a woman like any other and ugly things happen to me like any other women.

There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate.

When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.