"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. was an American Baptist minister and civil rights leader who led campaigns against racial segregation in the United States. His leadership of nonviolent protest helped secure major civil rights legislation in the 1960s.