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Obeying an unjust law is itself unjust. — Ryan North

If an unjust law is passed and enforced, then anyone coerced to comply with the law is a victim of injustice. — R.C. Sproul

It's hard to imagine, seeing all of us breathing yet one day each of us shall be gone, leaving memories. — Auliq Ice

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. — Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws. — Robert Green Ingersoll

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you. — Antonia Thomas

We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. — Ronald Reagan

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. — Ayn Rand

Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception. — William C. Brown

Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law. — Henry David Thoreau

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. — Maximilien Robespierre

If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered. — Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

There is no justice in following unjust laws. — Aaron Swartz

Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way. — Abraham Lincoln

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime. — Max Stirner

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. — Martin Luther King Jr.

A unjust law, is no law at all. — Martin Luther

Love is everything. — Kristen Ashley

No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. — Robert A. Heinlein

[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends. — Milton Friedman

If you have no anger inside your heart, you will have no enemy outside in the world. — Debasish Mridha

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.
Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go. — Anne Carson

The horror with which blind and unjust law regards an action never attaches to the doer in the eyes of those who love him. — Robert Louis Stevenson

An unjust law in itself is an act of violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties — H.L. Mencken

O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature. — Pablo Neruda

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men. — Mahatma Gandhi

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust. — Martin Luther King Jr.

[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust. — Charley Reese

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist — Mahatma Gandhi

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all. — Saint Augustine

An unjust law is no law at all. — Augustine Of Hippo

Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility. — Mary McCarthy

To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. — Martin Luther King Jr.