"Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right."
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.