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.
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This quote is just one of 69 total Martin Luther King Jr. quotes in our collection. Martin Luther King Jr. is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.
This quote is just one of 69 total Martin Luther King Jr. quotes in our collection. Martin Luther King Jr. is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.