WIST-o-the-day

One who breaks an unjust 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 law.
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp — Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), Letter from Birmingham Jail (1964)

Too true. Though the “willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment” clause is forgotten too often by civil protesters (“How dare you arrest me for breaking an unjust law?!”), whereas the idea that one can break a law to express respect for the underlying justice of the law is forgotten too often by supporters of the status quo.