![]() ![]() Would he believe it was our “moral responsibility to disobey” laws that limit workers’ rights, emergency rules that prohibit people from worshiping with others who share the same religion, or government-imposed costs intended to interfere with private parties’ contracting rights? ![]() King were alive today, what recent laws he would find just or unjust. King’s violation of a court order that prohibited “parading, demonstrating, boycotting, trespassing and picketing,” which landed him in that Birmingham jail in 1963, was the disobedience of an unjust law. In the context of legalized segregation, we should all readily agree that those laws were unjust. ![]() King simply stated it, a just law “squares with the moral law or the law of God.” An unjust law is “out of harmony with the moral law.” He believed that a law that “degrades human personality is unjust.” King said “one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” As Dr. While advocating obedience to just laws, Dr. King talked about the difference between just and unjust laws. ![]()
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