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 he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
Martin Luther King jr. – American civil rights activist and pastor, Nobel Peace Prize 1964 (1929-1968), from his speech “A Proper Sense of Priorities”, held in Washington on February 6th, 1968, Quotations book 2017