Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.
What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?
People are, well, only human. We know that. The rule of law is borne out in identifying, condemning, and punishing those who violate the standards on which we all agree. This is exactly what we do in America.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day.
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.
I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal.
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
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