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91. “On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Cowardice, Conscience, Choices, Morality, Ethics

92. “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.

Law, Conscience, Justice, Respect, Activism

93. “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Conscience, Morality, Courage, Position, Integrity

94. “Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Vanity, Politics, Conscience, Morality, Ethics

95. “We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Faith, Integrity, Determination, Conscience, Movement

96. “The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother’s keeper.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Conscience, Oppression, Responsibility, Justice, Humanity

97. “If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonviolence, Conscience, Resistance, Justice, Strategy

98. “We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Peace, Society, Conscience, Harmony, Justice

99. “Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Injustice, Awareness, Healing, Truth, Conscience

100. “Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Responsibility, Silence, Inaction, Justice, Conscience

101. “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.

Civil Disobedience, Justice, Conscience, Morality, Law

102. “When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Conscience, Compassion, Action, Humanity, Responsibility

103. “There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.”

Mahatma Gandhi

Justice, Conscience, Morality, Ethics, Authority

104. “The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.”

Mahatma Gandhi

Conscience, Voice, Reach, Humanity, Inner Voice

105. “God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.”

Mahatma Gandhi

God, Conscience, Atheism, Spirituality, Unity

106. “The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.”

Mahatma Gandhi

Conscience, Courage, Self-Belief, Integrity, Individuality