I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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To employ the coercive apparatus of the state in order to maintain manifestly unjust institutions is itself a form of illegitimate force that men in due course have a right to resist.
John Rawls
We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause.
Jose Narosky
In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.
Rufus Jones
The ruling was unjust. The Japanese government and related companies should apologize. We will continue to sue until we obtain justice.
Cui Guangting
The bottom line of this unjust decision is that it will present an opening for increased building of coal-fired power plants in this region. Already there are two new units proposed in Kentucky and one in Indiana, which will impact Evansville.
John Blair
It's important for people to constantly express their opposition to unjust policies. It's our patriotic duty.
Deborah Smith
Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.
Dennis Prager
Outrageous, extreme, unjust, straight up bogus.
Charles Barron
Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.
James Q. Wilson
It's a thrilling ride for the coaching staff. And it's a new group of kids each year. You always shoot to make it to the state tournament once or twice in your career. We almost feel unjust that we've been there seven times in a row.
Jon Murphy
As one of the judges in the Court of Appeal pointed out, the interpretation so given results in unfairness. It is unjust that if insurance companies agree to insure a party to the extent of a sum in excess of the statutory minimum and collect premiums based on that sum, it is unjust to require the companies to pay over to the injured party, only the minimum coverage required by the statute.
Arthur Williams
Support troops by rejecting unjust wars.
Richard Knight
Nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility for irregular sexual acts, and for the same acts drives women to abortion, infanticide, prostitution, and self-destruction.
Suzanne Lafollette
The environmental movement hasn't been successful with daily values, ... The civil rights movement never lost sight of the fact that it was inherently a moral issue, that it was not just an unjust treatment of someone on a bus, but also how future generations were going to be treated. That doesn't mean that people have to be badgered, just that they have to have it brought into their daily lives.
John Cronin
Accept, accept that I have won, whispers the Devil. You can see for yourself that life is unjust, unfair, that suffering is ordinary. Who is stronger? I am, of course. Just despair, my dear, despair. Only tell me that I am strong, that Evil rules.
Suzanne Massie
All government wars are unjust.
Murray Rothbard
I think he is very committed to this issue and he's very passionate about improving the criminal justice system, as he spoke about [during the event]. I believe he feels that it's critical, and given his experience, I think he can play a role in helping to change what is an unjust system.
Kurt Rosenberg
Based on the blood that was shed ... on the historic, political and legal arguments, these talks are imposed and unjust.
Sherif Krasniqi
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. the supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.
Noah Webster
This is unjust. I could be giving someone a ride, and be prosecuted as a criminal.
Javier Aguilar
Before I went through that situation, and during the time I was in there, I know there were people who were crying with me, people who identified with (my songs). They cried because they knew that what I was going through was unjust.
Gloria Trevi
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
Jacob Bronowski
If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
If [politicians] are going to go after this demographic, it's not just about the issues but about fairness and morality. And it's not the same thing as talking about religion specifically. What I hope politicians will talk about is whether their policies are fundamentally just or unjust.
David King
We plan to appeal this unjust ruling. There is no evidence that Mr. Simpson knew or should have known that the devices in his home were illegal. He wasn't even living in the house at the time. He was busy with his search for the real killers of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
Yale Galanter
To come on his birthday ... when this president unilaterally went to war, is still engaged in war, an illegal and unjust war.
Tim Mcdonald
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
W. Somerset Maugham
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict execution.
Ulysses S. Grant
So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government we cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.
Lucy Parsons
Was a different kind of leader, and people knew it. His work tore apart the comfortable fabric of an unjust social contract.
Joseph P. Kennedy
Teachers are being forced to take a stand against an unjust law. It's this government that intervened and passed an unjust law while we were negotiating within the rules they made.
Jinny Sims
It was a political sentence, it was an unjust decision. My gesture has nothing to do with political ideologies.
Paolo Di Canio
It is a political declaration and it is unjust.
Manouchehr Mottaki
Lucio Gutierrez is innocent of the charges, ... I ask you, your honors, to do justice (and) revoke the unjust imprisonment order.
Lucio Gutierrez
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
Maximilien Robespierre
It's unjust to create a law that will incriminate people just for working, or being human.
Diego Garcia
RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them. In the lines following, addressed to an Emperor in exile by Father Gassalasca Jape, the reverend poet appears to hint his sense of the improduence of turning about to face Retribution when it is talking exercise: What, what! Dom Pedro, you.
Ambrose Bierce
These guys build up a perception of me that's probably unjust to some degree, though competition. We'll quickly form a bond.
Glen Miller
We found him obviously tired and haggard, unrepentant, even defiant, justifying crimes saying he was a just but firm ruler, our answer was that he was unjust ruler responsible for death of thousands of people.
Adnan Pachachi
We're taking every step we can think of to take. It seems so unjust that someone who has been such a careful, unbiased, sensitive reporter could be murdered for that kind of public service.
David Cook
When you have unjust laws and unjust actions, people take to the streets.
Domingo Garcia
Sometimes do I think it was unjust? Yeah, but I can think about it all I want - it (isn't) going to change what's going on this year. I'm trying to put all that stuff as far away from my mind as I can possibly get it and just move on and try to prosper in this new year.
Mark Roman
Just people cannot follow unjust laws.
Jenni Williams
It is this regime that started a war of genocide against the Kurdish people, then started an unjust war against our dear neighbour Iran which has often helped the Iraqi people at times of hardship.
Jalal Talabani
When they see something unjust and something that is wrong don't be afraid to fall back on your faith and don't be afraid to do something. Take action, do it non-violently.
Daniel Burns
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
E. B. White
We believe it's absolutely unfair and unjust that they just arbitrarily say they won't pay. There could be no question in anyone's view that he is suffering from a disability. We are absolutely confident that we will prevail.
Wayne Fisher
As long as there are unjust laws, especially criminal laws, it would be doubly unjust if the defendant cannot rely on technicalities.
Yeo Yang Poh
The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella, But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella.
Charles Bowen
I have said before how much I regret making this exception to our antidiscrimination policy. I believe the military's discriminatory employment policy is deeply wrong - both unwise and unjust.
Elena Kagan
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