Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Source: Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Source: The Rights of Animals (1965), p. 17
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Source: Letter from the Birmingham Jail
“it is just as wrong, or even perhaps more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Variant: I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
Context: I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
As quoted in " Desmond Tutu turns 75 http://www.news24.com/World/News/Desmond-Tutu-turns-75-20061006" at News24 (6 October 2006)
John Burroughs (1837–1921) American naturalist and essayist
Source: The Light of Day (1900), Ch. IV: Natural Versus Supernatural
Leo Tolstoy book The Slavery of Our Times
Source: The Slavery of Our Times (1890), Chapter 8: Slavery Exists Among Us
Auberon Herbert (1838–1906) British politician
The human conscience knows no distinction between church rates and other compulsory rates and taxes. The sin lies in the disregarding of each other's convictions, and is not affected by the subject matter of the tax.
The Principles of Voluntaryism and Free Life