Martin Luther King, Jr. quote about conscience from Letter from a Birmingham Jail - 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.
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“ 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 a Birmingham Jail (16 April 1963). copy citation

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Author Martin Luther King, Jr.
Source Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Topic conscience justice law
Date 16 April 1963
Language English
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Martin Luther King, Jr. quote about conscience from Letter from a Birmingham Jail - 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. quote about conscience from Letter from a Birmingham Jail - 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.