If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take course unresistingly. The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
Civil Disobedience Quotes
Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was evidenced sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meschach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar, on the ground that a higher moral law was at stake. It was practiced superbly by the early Christians who were willing to face hungry […]
Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
