We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong [….] There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.

Alexander M. Bickel (1924-1974) Romanian-American law professor, constitutional scholar

Politics and the Warren Court, Part 3, ch. 5 “Civil Rights and Civil Disobedience” (1965)
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