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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.
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We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.
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