Justice

“A person's a person, no matter how small”

“All wars are planned by older men in council rooms apart”

“But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream”

“Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation can never effect a reform”

“Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law”

“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude”

“Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists”

“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods”

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed”

“Every joke is a tiny revolution”

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do”

“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you”

“For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all”

“For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewellery”

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction”

“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble”

“Hitler didn't snub me; it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram”

“I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!”

“I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag. I know that I am a black man in a white world”

“I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man”

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”

“I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him”

“I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being”

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him”

“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place”

“If we don't end war, war will end us”

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”

“If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing”

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”

“It's a big club and you ain't in it”

“My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud, for big powerful America”

“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love”

“Organize, agitate, educate must be our war cry”

“Please, sir, I want some more”

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will”

“Riches and honours acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud”

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”

“The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer”

“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse”

“The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman”

“The most violent element in society is ignorance”

“The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind”

“The only land we ever asked for was enough land to bury our dead”

“The quality of mercy is not strained; it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: it blesseth him that gives and him that takes”

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it”

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice”

“Well-behaved women seldom make history”

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle”

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds”

“Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it”

“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist”