All MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Quotes about “Segregation”

“Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than...''You are not equal to...'”
“I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed to the breakdown of segregation.”
“Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.”
“My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.”
“I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.”
“A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?”
“Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.”
“Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.”

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