Quotes related to Micah 6:8
Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have a dream! To be free at last! Free at last! Free at last. And if a man has nothing to die for, Then his life is worth nothing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
- Oscar Wilde
Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?
- Henry David Thoreau
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.
- Henry David Thoreau
Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.
- Herbert Hoover
What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.
- James Madison