Quotes about Equality

What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis.

In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining…. We demand this fraud be stopped.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.

The Universe is on the side of Justice

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

I have a dream, that one day on the red hills of Georgia...