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Clever tyrants are never punished.

One who breaks an unjust 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.

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 moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?

It is right to give every man his due.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.