Accepting Quote by 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, 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

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

— Denis Diderot

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

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

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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

— Thomas Jefferson

The privilege of resisting or disobeying a particular law or order accrues only to him who gives willing and unswerving obedience to the laws…

— Mahatma Gandhi