Ethics Quote by Marian Wright Edelman

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

— Martin Luther King Jr

What is right is not always the same as what is legal

— Edward Snowden

We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was "illegal."…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right…

— Edward Snowden

Who's to say what's right or wrong? The courts and the society can be totally wrong. Nazi Germany, what did they say was the…

— Frederick Lenz

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the…

— Robert Byrd

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

— Maximilien Robespierre

Sometimes there is a difference in what is legal and what ought to be done.

— William J. Clinton

What is lawful is not always identical to what is right.

— Ian Mcewan

Right is not only to act within the law. It's to also act according to the conscience.

— Howard Zinn

The law doesn't create a right.

— Jack Kevorkian

We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.”…

— Martin Luther King, Jr