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Topic·Fighting injustice✕clear

Open letter · Letter

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail · 1963

★ 6.5

Open letter · Letter

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail · 1963

★ 5.5

Courtroom speech · Speech

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show to my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiples evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence.

1922

★ 5.4

Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it's cowardice.

1965

★ 5.3

If we simply accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything... That smacks of discrimination or slander.

Mary McLeod Bethune

1944

★ 1.9

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting · 1979

★ 1.0