“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Peaceful civil disobedience to unjust laws, which I support with every fiber of my being, can sometimes be necessary at any level… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces,… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“That Anarchist world, I admit, is our dream; we do believe - well, I, at any rate, believe this present world, this… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There comes a point at which a law can be so unjust it is necessary openly, lovingly and with a willingness to… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
They (the novelists) became the voice of the citizen against the ubiquitous raison d'état, which reappeared endlessly to justify everything from unjust… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
See how peaceful it is here. The sea is everything. An immense reservoir of nature where I roam at will.... Think of… — Earl Felton Copy Share Image
One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In the first place, an unjust law exists in this Commonwealth, by which marriages between persons of different color is pronounced illegal.… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
“If their rules made sense and sense ruled— If their laws weren’t so brok- en I wouldn’t break ‘em.” — Roy Duffield Copy Share Image
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
“For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
