Like Plato, Martin Luther King talks about using your knowledge as good or evil. ... He states in Letter from Birmingham Jail that: "There are just and unjust laws, a unjust law is a code that a majority inflicts on a minority that is not binding on itself. ... King goes on give more examples of just and unjust laws. ... Plato and King believed people were born with the true knowledge of forms/ideas. ... Plato and Dr. ...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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