"There are some things concerning which we..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must never adjust ourselves to racial segregation. We must never adjust ourselves to religious bigotry. We must never adjust ourselves to economic conditions that take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.
More by Martin Luther King Jr
“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
“A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.”
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
More on Justice
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
“Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.”
“Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.”
More on Injustice
“If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.”
“But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.”
“We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms.”