I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual you know the individual the person who doesn't conform.
Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Everyone should be respected as an individual but no one idolized.
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.
The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.
We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.
In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.