Acceptance Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse…

— Martin Luther King Jr

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail…

— Martin Luther King Jr

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

— Anonymous

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“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

Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I…

— Artur Phleps

Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.

— Henry David Thoreau