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.
They say I need to be seasoned; they say I need to be stewed. They say, 'We need to boil all the hope out of him -- like us -- and then he'll be ready.'
Martial arts in general were not made for a tournament, for points system. Martial arts were made to defend yourself in the street fight situation, not to score points.
You do not stop losing power by refusing to recognize your fear, by anesthetizing yourself to what you feel. The road to authentic power is always through what you feel through your heart.
I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.
We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.
The socialist parties of all countries are duty bound to fight energetically for the implementation of universal women's suffrage which is to be vigorously advocated both by agitation and by parliamentary means. When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.
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