Student Success Statement

"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 that it is right."
 -Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr.

I believe this quote means that you have to do what is right because its right not because its a popular thing or a politic thing. You have to do the right thing because its the right thing and nothing else matters. For example if your friend is bullying someone then you should tell because its the right thing to not, not cover up just because that person is your "friend". Even if other people don't want to choose the right because they don't
 think that that's "cool" you still should do what is right because
your conscience tells you its right.