Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Justice


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 he must take it simply because conscience tells him it is right.


- Martin Luther King Jr.,

From his address, "To Chart Our Course for the Future" (1968).

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