
“ 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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16 April 1963
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