Whenever you take a stand for truth and justice, you are liable to scorn.

I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness.

We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

We are not wrong, we are not wrong in what we are doing. If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. And if we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong. If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a utopian dreamer that never came down to Earth.

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