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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.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.
- Jay-Z
We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.