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In every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble Terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826The Declaration of Independence (1776)In context
- Government
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Virtue
You say that you are my judge. I do not know if you are! But I tell you that you must take good care not to judge me wrongly, because you will put yourself in great danger.
JAJoan of Arc1412–1431Warning to Bishop Cauchon, trial of condemnation, examination in prison (14 March 1431)
Our mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country: to right wrong, to do justice, to serve man.
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973We Shall Overcome (1965)
- America
Justice means a man’s hope should not be limited by the color of his skin.
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973State of the Union Address (1966)
- Race
Their cause must be our cause too. Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome.
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973We Shall Overcome (1965)
- Race
This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Address on Civil Rights (1963)
- America
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968Day of Affirmation Address, University of Cape Town (6 June 1966)
- Courage
- Hope
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968In a 1955 response to an accusation that he was “disturbing the peace” by his activism during the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, as quoted in Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr (1982) by Stephen B. Oates
- War & Peace
Injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Speech to the Second National Convention of the Medical Committee for Human Rights – Chicago (25 March 1966), as quoted in Dan Munro, “America’s Forgotten Civil Right—Healthcare”, Forbes (28 August 2013)
- Health
Segregation is wrong because it is a system of adultery perpetuated by an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Cobo Center speech (1963)
- Race
We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.”
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
- Laws
How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968“How Long, Not Long”, speech at the Alabama State Capitol, Montgomery (25 March 1965); the image is the abolitionist Theodore Parker’s, from a sermon of 1853
- Hope