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


In 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


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

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

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

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