Justice Quotes

"Pay him justice"

"Yes, I'm an extremist. The black race here is in extremely bad condition"

"The Negro problem won't be solved by the white people integrating with the black people"

"You expose the enemy by exposing the system"

"You can't have capitalism without racism"

"You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right."

"Racism is still alive, but it does not have to thrive."

"I am not tired of living, I am tired of injustice."

"I would rather go to jail than accept injustice."

"To be treated as equal is what I wanted."

"My life's work was for equality."

"Our movement was about human rights."

"The Constitution doesn't say everybody. It says 'we the people.' We have to expand the meaning of those words."

"I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference."

"Unequal justice under the law is the most grievous form of injustice."

"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

"The question isn't whether affirmative action is fair. It's whether inequality is fair."

"A black man cannot possibly be wrong in his aspiration to protect his rights."

"What affects one directly affects all indirectly. Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere."

"Discrimination is wrong, no matter who is being discriminated against."

"The measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members."

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress them, neither persons nor property will be safe."

"I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."

"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."

"Woman's rights are human rights."

"The Negro should not be deprived of any right which is common to other men."

"I would stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right."

"The moral arc of the universe bends toward justice, but it does not bend on its own."

"I have been tracked down by historians, but I would rather be remembered for my work in civil rights."

"I refused to move because my feet were already tired from a lifetime of injustice."