Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn’t bend on its own.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.
Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.
In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can’t expect that you’re going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?
The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
You can’t be neutral on a moving train.
If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.
Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we’d been saying they were.
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.