There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of personal conscience over blind obedience to unjust laws.
Martin Luther King, Jr. highlights a critical moment when an individual's moral compass must take precedence over adherence to laws deemed unjust. In this context, he advocates for standing up against societal norms that conflict with one's ethical beliefs, asserting that true morality sometimes requires civil disobedience.
In practice
A speaker at a civil rights rally can use this quote to inspire action against discriminatory laws.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.
You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.
When there are no avenues of escape or one is caught even before any attempt to escape can be made, then for the first time the use of self-defense techniques should be considered. Even at times like these, do not show any intention of attacking, but first let the attacker become careless. At that time attack him concentrating one's whole strength in one blow to a vital point and in the moment of surprise, escape and seek shelter and help.
Women are constantly being taught how to defend themselves against attack from men. I would like to shift the perception. I want to say that that responsibility should no longer rest on the shoulders of women alone.
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