An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

Mahatma Gandhi
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was a man who was very much opposed to law breaking. He believed in the power of nonviolence and was willing to go to jail to protest injustice. However, when he was arrested for breaking the law, he did not resist in any way.

Instead, he was calm and collected the whole time. His actions showed that he wanted to have peaceful resistance instead of violence.

Source: Nonviolence In Peace And War 194249

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