Endeavor Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them?

— Henry David Thoreau

If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.

— Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

There comes a point at which a law can be so unjust it is necessary openly, lovingly and with a willingness to accept the…

— Robert P. George

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.

— Amity Shlaes

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is…

— Martin Luther King Jr

We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will…

— Ronald Reagan

If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.

— Thomas Jefferson

To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

— Ayn Rand