Accepts Quote by 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, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse…

— Martin Luther King Jr

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

— 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

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

— Hosea Ballou

“If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be punishment as well as the prison.”

— Anonymous

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

— Publilius Syrus

No one should be forced to violate one's conscience, nor should anyone be forced out of service of the common good because there are…

— Donald Wuerl

“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

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own…

— Anonymous