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Do you know if MLK broke any demonstration laws?

Quotes About Civil Disobedience

Quotes tagged as "civil-disobedience" (showing 1-30 of 3,000)

Martin Luther King Jr.
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
? Martin Luther King Jr.
tags: activism, civil-disobedience, dissent, protest
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Howard Zinn
“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”
? Howard Zinn
tags: activism, civil-disobedience, democracy, dissent, law, protest, truth-telling
177 likes

Aristotle
“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
? Aristotle, Selected Writings From The Nicomachean Ethics And Politics
tags: activism, civil-disobedience, good, patriotism, value, virtue
146 likes

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 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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.. i didn't check the veracity of those .. whatever, the message is clear ..