Quotes about Equality
Everybody can be great because anybody can serve.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Deep in our history of struggle for freedom, Canada was the North star
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Samuel G. Morton, a Philadelphia physician, emerged with the head-size theory which affirmed that the larger the skull, the superior the individual. This theory was used by other ethnologists to prove that the large head size of Caucasians signified more intellectual capacity and more native worth. A
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I will do everything in my power to make it so by outspoken agreement whenever proper, and determined opposition whenever necessary.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There will be no permanent solution to the race problem until oppressed men develop the capacity to love their enemies. The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
agree with the President's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders that our nation is splitting into two hostile societies and that the chief destructive cutting edge is white racism.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh. Nonviolence, the answer to the Negroes' need, may become the answer to the most desperate need of all humanity.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over...
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice at the deepest level had but few stalwart champions.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.