Civil disobedience is a time-honoured strategy for resolving contradictions between justice and the law.

Not only is disobedience to bad laws the right thing to do, but it is also your obligation!

Quotes:

"Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." - Henry David Thoreau, A Duty of Civil Disobedience [1849]

"When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow." - Henry David Thoreau

"It is a just person who disobeys an unjust law." - Plato (427-347 BC)

"Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience,..." - John Locke, 2nd Treatise of Government, 1690

"Non-cooperation with injustice is a sacred duty." - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"It is your moral duty and obligation to disobey an unjust law!" - Dr Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (1729–1797)