Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.

I hope that liberty and equality and opportunity lie within your heart because the hopes of millions of Americans depend on it.

The principles for which we stand are the principles of fair play and a square deal for every man and every woman in the United States.

To me, being a Democrat means we can't let 'We the People' turn into 'We the Few.'

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

We have made great strides, but somehow we've got to create a climate so that everybody can do well, not just some.

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed — Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.

We must be thoroughly democratic and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

What am I if not the crystallization of popular demand, the promise of bread, justice and respect.

Our party’s always been the place you can come to wherever there’s injustice. That’s what the Democratic Party’s for. That’s why it was born. That’s why it survives. So the poor and the downtrodden and the bended can have a place to turn.

We hold the view that all men are created equal." Now, what did they mean by that? Did they mean, my friends, to say that all men were created equal and that that meant that any one man was born to inherit $10 billion and that another child was to be born to inherit nothing? Did that mean, my friends, that someone would come into this world without having had an opportunity, of course, to have hit one lick of work, should be born with more than it and all of its children and children's children could every dispose of, but that another one would have to be born into a life of starvation?

The tensions between order and liberty, between opportunity and social justice will always be there, but that’s freedom.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions — it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

In a good society, those in the middle and at the bottom ought to benefit significantly from economic growth. When the country prospers, everybody should prosper.

Of course we want prosperity, but we wish prosperity in such a way … so that everybody will get his share, and that it will not be confined to a few who monopolize the means of production or the means of transportation, and thus prevent that equality of distribution that we all like to see.

I think, at the heart of the idea of American democracy, there is something tender.

I saw America as a land of opportunity, not a bastion of racism or sexism.