Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and countless other social justice leaders have offered invaluable wisdom and inspiration. We honor them today by sharing some of their most memorable words.
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“When we identify where our privilege intersects with somebody else's oppression, we'll find our opportunities to make real change.”
- Ijeoma Oluo
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“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
- William Penn
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“Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble… good trouble, necessary trouble.”
- Rep. John Lewis
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“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
- Angela Davis
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“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
- Frederick Douglass
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"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."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.