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 the law.
And here Dr. King makes a very good point. It is not the breaking of the law that bespeaks the moral act -- it accepting willing the punishment that comes with it.
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