...The straitjackets of race prejudice and discrimination do not wear only southern labels. The subtle, psychological technique of the North has appr… - Martin Luther King Jr.

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist. That would lead to anarchy. One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. 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 law.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

it is just as wrong, or even perhaps more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.