Martin Luther King Jr. on justice

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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.

If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

Jesse Jackson1941–2026

• Life & Death
• Morality

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Clarence Darrow1857–1938

• Patriotism

If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.

Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776)In context

• Liberty