Ethics 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

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

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“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

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

— Anonymous

Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

“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

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