Word: obey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greater heart from the luminous words he flung into the face of white America: "We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws. We will soon wear you down by our capacity to suffer. And in winning our freedom, we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process." In his death, if not in life, Martin Luther King may have gone...
Angry Mobs. National guardsmen also surrounded the legislative palace, which Delvalle had announced he would use as a temporary office. When Delvalle arrived to take occupancy, a mob of supporters gathered to cheer him on. "I am the constitutional President and you should obey me," Delvalle told the officer in charge. "Please help me maintain order," the officer snapped back. From somewhere in the crowd, rocks began flying. With that, the troops fired off a volley of tear-gas grenades, Delvalle beat a retreat, and a full-scale riot erupted. For two hours, demonstrators swarmed through downtown streets, overturning vehicles...
After debating the moral, legal, and military sides of the issue, ten students said the soldier should disobey orders, four said he should obey, and two were undecided...
...Obey or Not. In a heated colloquy about the many variables in the child-parent relationship, Paul insists that when two parents disagree about a child's desires, the youngster's obligation is to the parent who opposes him. Jonathan disagrees: "Once you say go against what you want to do, that's everything. You have no principle related to right and wrong." But the older man is not really that dogmatic; he has already explained that though a young child cannot be expected to make the ethical decisions his son calls principle, an older child...
...that doesn't mean everyone should go about breaking all the laws that one wants to break. I didn't say 'want,' I said 'morally convinced is wrong.' If you were thoughtful, you would probably agree with most laws and obey them. Certainly traffic laws should be obeyed; it's stupid to break those...