Civil Disobedience Quotes

“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.”

“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”

“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”

"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."

"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."