"When we ask the Negro to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law in the ghettos." (Martin Luther King Jr. "The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers" (found at Google books). This ngram shows that "abide by the law" is eighteen times more common than "abide by law": More @Wikipedia
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