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Unjust Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey…
- There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
- There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is…
- Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to…
- One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.
- Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than…
- A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that…
- Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the…
- The decision we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs or to the ethical demands of the…
- 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…
- An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the…
- One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
- We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.
- I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. Our involvement…
- One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I…
- We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.
- I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order…
- I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to…
- One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the…
- I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail in…
More Unjust Quotes
- Punishment is justice for the unjust. — Saint Augustine
- It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all. — Saint Augustine
- I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large -… — Julianna Baggott
- Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always… — Hosea Ballou
- When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer. — Kristen Bell
- As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows… — John Berger
- The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in… — Jacob Bronowski
- Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. — Edmund Burke
- People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a… — Louisa May Alcott
- We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men… — Robert Byrd
- There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that… — Albert Camus
- If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded. — Thomas Carlyle