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A unjust law, is no law at all. -- Martin Luther
There is no justice in following unjust laws. -- Aaron Swartz
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
An unjust law in itself is an act of violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. -- Robert A. Heinlein
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all. -- Saint Augustine
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. -- Mahatma Gandhi
As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist -- Mahatma Gandhi
One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression. -- Lysander Spooner
In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture. -- Aaron Swartz
When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. -- Isaiah
There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears. -- Jules Verne
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust. -- Tim Robbins
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. -- Maximilien Robespierre
Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself. -- Robert Dale Owen
We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends. -- Robert Byrd
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.
The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered. -- Benjamin N. Cardozo
Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law. -- Henry David Thoreau
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way. -- Abraham Lincoln
Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility. -- Mary McCarthy
[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust. -- Charley Reese
I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust. -- Gorgias

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