Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.
Civil Disobedience Quotes
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 the law.
The city into which I was born in 1880 had a reputation all over for what the English, in their real-estate advertising, are fond of calling the amenities. So far as I have been able to discover by a labored search of contemporary travel-books, no literary tourist, however waspish he may have been… ever gave […]
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
