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In three pages, this paper that is subdivided into three essays considers how King distinguishes between just and unjust law, whether civil disobedience is morally wrong, and how a law can be just on its face and unjust in its application. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.
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early spring 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had a great deal of time to think about the meaning of justice within the context of the U.S. legal system.
In a letter he addressed to the clergy who belonged to the National Council of Churches, King examined the barriers to justice as he looked through the barred windows of
his prison cell. He pondered the distinctions between what he labeled as two versions of law: Just and unjust (King 274). He agreed with St. Augustine that there
was a need for law, and that no law would be the greatest injustice of all. King reasoned that he supported the notion of just laws that truly reflected
justice, representing "a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God" (274). On the other hand, "An unjust law is a code that is
out of harmony with the moral law" (King 274). To further denote the distinction he sought to make, King quoted another religious philosopher, St. Thomas Aquinas, who argued that
an unjust law is any human-created law that exists independently from "eternal and natural law" (274). Therefore, any law that respects humanity or supports the individual personality is just;
anything disrespectful or degrading is unjust (274). Himself a contemporary religious philosopher, Martin Luther King Jr. takes a more socially pragmatic
approach to distinguishing between just and unjust law. Desegregation represents a just law because it promotes equality and inclusion. Diversity is acceptable because all human beings are Gods
children. Segregation, however, is an unjust law because it reinforces the notion of dominance with the segregator operating under "a false sense of superiority" and the segregated saddled
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