David Thoreau would unarguably agree with Plato's quote. ... If people obeyed all laws, they would tend to do unjust things. ... Thoreau in his essay Civil Disobedience also accuses the government of being unjust. ... The tax collector needs to stop serving the unjust government. ... Socrates is clearly criticizing politicians of being unjust. ...
Socrates and MLK Jr. both dealt with the question, "Is it just to break an unjust law?" In Plato's Crito and MLK Jr.'... Neither man used violence in his means of showing his dislike for certain unjust laws and yet both were punished for their actions and beliefs. ... Socrates does not even think he has disobeyed a law in the first place and MLK Jr. consciously disobeys those laws he thinks to be unjust. ... MLK Jr. stresses that if the minority has no part in devising the law, then it is unjust and should not have to be followed. ...
He knows for a fact that the law is unjust in its doing; but, his main quarrel against Crito is that he cannot just escape and disobey the law. ... However on the other hand, there is Martin Luther King Jr. who would definitely have gained the approval of Socrates and Plato. ... "Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application. ...
