Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

“It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.” 

“The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.”

 It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges

He who lives outside the law is a slave. The free man is the man who lives within the law, whether that law be the physical or the divine

In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.