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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.— Martin Luther King Jr.
The civil rights movement spoke in words that still ring. These quotes by civil rights leaders on justice are the truth they paid for. Read them. Live them. Pass them on.
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More topics ›Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.— Martin Luther King Jr.
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.— Martin Luther King Jr.
Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.— John Lewis
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.— Martin Luther King Jr.
If not us, then who? If not now, then when?— John Lewis
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.— Martin Luther King Jr.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.— Martin Luther King Jr.
The time is always right to do what is right.— Martin Luther King Jr.
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.— Maya Angelou
Sometimes you have to be a witness, even when no one else is.— Anonymous
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.— Frederick Douglass
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.— Frederick Douglass
I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.— Harriet Tubman
I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.— Angela Davis
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.— Nelson Mandela
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.— Nelson Mandela
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.— Desmond Tutu
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.— Martin Luther King Jr.
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.— James Baldwin
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.— Rosa Parks
You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.— Rosa Parks
Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.— Maya Angelou
It is never the wrong time to do the right thing.— Martin Luther King Jr.
The function of freedom is to free someone else.— Toni Morrison
Hate is too great a burden to bear.— Coretta Scott King
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.— Maya Angelou
Voting is the foundation stone for political action.— Martin Luther King Jr.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.— Martin Luther King Jr.
Let freedom ring.— Martin Luther King Jr.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.— Martin Luther King Jr.