Quotes about Justice
We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.
— Henry David Thoreau
We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
— Martin Luther
If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Violence is not the way.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.