Fighting injustice

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

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Civil disobedience Breaking the law Fighting injustice

Author

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Medium

Open letter Letter

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Original Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.

Current Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.

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.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

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Topic

Civil disobedience Breaking the law Fighting injustice

Author

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Medium

Open letter Letter

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Original Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.

Current Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show to my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiples evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Topic

Civil disobedience Fighting injustice

Speaker

Mahatma Gandhi

Medium

Courtroom speech Speech

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Gandhi, Mahatma. Statement made at his trial. The Great Trial of 1922. 23 Mar. 1922, Ahmadabad, India.

Current Citation

Gandhi, Mahatma. The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings, edited by Tridip Suhrud. Penguin Classics, 2019, pt. 1, ch. 9.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it's cowardice.

George Jackson

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Topic

Fighting injustice

Author

George Jackson

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Jackson, George. Letter to Mother and Father. 2 May 1965.

If we simply accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything... That smacks of discrimination or slander.

Mary McLeod Bethune

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Topic

Discrimination Racism Fighting injustice

Author

Mary McLeod Bethune

Source

Certain Unalienable Rights

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Bethune, Mary McLeod. "Certain Unalienable Rights." What the Negro Wants, edited by Rayford Logan. University of North Carolina Press, 1944.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Milan Kundera

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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Topic

Fighting injustice Oppression Memory History

Speaker

Mirek

Author

Milan Kundera

Source

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Czech

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

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Original Citation

Kundera, Milan. Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli [The Book of Laughter and Forgetting]. Gallimard, 1979.

Current Citation

Kundera, Milan. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, translated by Aaron Asher. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999.