The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
- John Locke
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
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.
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
- Truman Capote
Just think -- guns have a constitutional amendment protecting them and women don't.
- Eleanor Smeal
Until the infallibility of human judgment shall have been proved to me, I shall persist in demanding the abolition of the death penalty.
- Marquis de Lafayette