Cowardice asks the question: Is it safe? Expediency asks the question: Is it politic? Vanity asks the question: Is it popular? But conscience asks the question: Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular — but [she] must take it simply because conscience tells [her] it is right.
- Martin Luther King Jr.,
from his address, “To Chart Our Course for the Future” (1968)
