We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong…. There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them. – Alexander Bickel
Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
When Negroes looked for the second phase, the realization of equality, they found that many of their white allies had quietly disappeared…. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes. – Joseph Hall (1574–1656), Bishop of Norwich, The Breathings of the Devout S
