Quotes, NYU Speech (2004)
Context: There is good and evil in every person. And what makes the United States special in the history of nations is our commitment to the rule of law and our carefully constructed system of checks and balances. Our natural distrust of concentrated power and our devotion to openness and democracy are what have led us as a people to consistently choose good over evil in our collective aspirations more than the people of any other nation.
“A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.”
Non-Violent Resistance - Often misquoted as "You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance."
Posthumous publications (1950s and later)
Context: You assist an unjust administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil.
A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.
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Mahatma Gandhi 238
pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-rul… 1869–1948Related quotes
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“A person who knows all that is good and all that is true — as much as can be known — but does not resist evils, knows nothing.”
Homo qui scit omnia bona et omnia vera, quotcunque sciri possunt, et non fugit mala, nihil scit
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“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.”
Written statement https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027778375;view=1up;seq=43 in trial for sedition, March 1922
1920s
Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Seven, Dependence And Economic Development, p. 304
“Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.”
Source: The Lords of Discipline