There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.
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The law is immoral.
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.
We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.
Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.
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