Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

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

I do not believe as Martin Luther King did, that the arc of history bends towards justice. I see the arc of history bending towards chaos or the unknown.

I am not in politics for power. I am in it for justice.

We have not let injustice to be done to anyone. We have been following the policy of 'justice to all, appeasement of none.'

Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

There will be justice," said Brutha. "If there is no justice, there is nothing.

To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where weve had so much injustice.

If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately.

Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve. As an elected official, I know that fighting for what is just is not always popular but it is necessary; that is the real challenge that public servants face and it is where courage counts the most. Without courage, our action or inaction results in suffering of the few and injustice for all.

The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.

The triumph of justice is the only peace.

There is no strength without justice.

I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

We need to do more than just what is right. We need to join together and right what is wrong.