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I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

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Respect,

Author:

Martin Luther King Jr.
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Category: Respect

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.
  • 2. I want to age with some dignity.
  • 3. I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth – I only regret in my chilled age certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's every little girl's dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It's amazing.
  • 2. To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' – that was pretty amazing.
  • 3. As a planning board commissioner I have to review the applications for development throughout the city and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
  • 2. Anger is never without an argument but seldom with a good one.
  • 3. When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence and terrorism on our country.
  • 2. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
  • 3. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
  • 2. Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
  • 3. The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
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