Civil disobedience is a time-honoured strategy for resolving contradictions between justice and the law.
Not only is disobedience to bad laws the right thing to do, but it is also your obligation!
Quotes:
"Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."
- Henry David Thoreau, A Duty of Civil Disobedience [1849]
"When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience
that he must follow." - Henry David Thoreau
"It is a just person who disobeys an unjust law."
- Plato (427-347 BC)
"Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy
the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery
under arbitary power, they put themselves into a state of
war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any
further obedience,..."
- John Locke, 2nd Treatise of Government, 1690
"Non-cooperation with injustice is a sacred duty."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
"It is your moral duty and obligation to disobey an unjust law!"
- Dr Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
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