Martin Luther King Jr on law
Martin Luther King Jr97 quotes“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
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If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
Martin Luther King JrMartin Luther King Jr In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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Look abroad through Nature’s range, Nature’s mighty law is change.
Robert BurnsRobert Burns We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.
Max PlanckMax Planck The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.
Max PlanckMax Planck Failure is predictable if you break laws, success is predictable if you obey laws. I discovered and learned that truth when I was 14 years old. Not everyone discovers that. Some people take a lifetime to learn that.
Myles MunroeMyles Munroe Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift God is the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
Robert BoyleRobert Boyle Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
Alfred NobelAlfred Nobel Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
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