“The Universe is on the side of Justice”

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The Universe is on the side of Justice" by Martin Luther King, Jr.?

Martin Luther King, Jr. 658

American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Ci… 1929–1968

Related quotes

“There is another side called justice. And justice is really love in calculation. Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Montgomery Bus Boycott speech, at Holt Street Baptist Church (5 December 1955) http://www.blackpast.org/?q=1955-martin-luther-king-jr-montgomery-bus-boycott
1950s
Context: Whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want to tell you this evening that it is not enough for us to talk about love, love is one of the pivotal points of the Christian face, faith. There is another side called justice. And justice is really love in calculation. Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.

“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Source: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Social justice' - the expression of universal hatred.”

Celia Green (1935) British philosopher

The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)

“The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.”

Roger Zelazny book The Dream Master

He Who Shapes (1965)
Source: The Dream Master

“In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.”

Quentin Crisp book The Naked Civil Servant

The Naked Civil Servant (1968)

“I am to do justice, and demand that of all, — a universal human debt, a universal human claim.”

Theodore Parker (1810–1860) abolitionist

Ten Sermons of Religion (1853), III : Of Justice and the Conscience https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ten_Sermons_of_Religion/Of_Justice_and_the_Conscience
Context: Justice is moral temperance in the world of men. It keeps just relations between men; one man, however little, must not be sacrificed to another, however great, to a majority, or to all men. It holds the balance betwixt nation and nation, for a nation is but a larger man; betwixt a man and his family, tribe, nation, race; between mankind and God. It is the universal regulator which coordinates man with man, each with all, — me with the ten hundred millions of men, so that my absolute rights and theirs do not interfere, nor our ultimate interests ever clash, nor my eternal welfare prove antagonistic to the blessedness of all or any one. I am to do justice, and demand that of all, — a universal human debt, a universal human claim.