What Is Right

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 one must take it because one’s conscience tells one what is right.

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)