If A Law Is Unjust Quotes

#1. The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.

Alan Paton

#2. 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

#3. There is no justice in following unjust laws.

Aaron Swartz

#4. If every man who passed an unjust judgment on his fellow should be condemned, how many judges would be found so vain and foolish as to review and condemn their Maker's work?

Clarence Darrow

#5. If an unjust law is passed and enforced, then anyone coerced to comply with the law is a victim of injustice.

R.C. Sproul

#6. 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

Martin Luther King Jr.

#7. One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#8. There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#9. while the law permits the Americans to do what they please, religion prevents them from conceiving, and forbids them to commit, what is rash or unjust." He

Eric Metaxas

#10. 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

#11. I submit that 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 law.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Ayn Rand

#13. A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

Saint Augustine

#15. Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.

Isaiah

#16. Forgetfulness is a property of all action. The man of action is also without knowledge: he forgets most things in order to do one, he is unjust to what is behind him, and only recognizes one law - the law of that which is to be.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

Marcus Tullius Cicero