Break 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

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 must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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 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 has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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 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

“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