"(20) Thoreau influenced those African Americans to speak their minds about the unjust laws, gaining the governments attention. ... "(320) Thoreau addresses the idea of defying the government when the law is unjust. ... Thoreau's acts of defiance against unjust laws he didn't believe in caused Martin Luther King and his fellow Negro community to do the same. ... Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws A just law is a man-made code that is out of Harmony with the moral law."(5) Like Martin Luther King, Howard Zinn also sided with Thoreau in b...

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He defines a just law as " a manmade code that squares with the moral law or the law of God" (Jacobus 187). A law that is mandated on the minority, but the majority is not required to follow, is considered unjust (Jacobus 187). The unjust laws, such as the segregation statutes, infringed on humans rights, and therefore slows the progress of society and African Americans. ... King saw the discriminatory and unjust treatment of African Americans. ... These unjust laws further enhance the malicious treatment of African Americans. ...

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Racial profiling is a form of discrimination by which law enforcement uses a person's race or cultural background as the primary reason to suspect that the individual has broken the law. ... While these groups of individuals may feel they are being subjected to racism, law enforcement stand to believe it is a simple act of private security. ... Law enforcement agencies have gone through time consuming and expensive litigation over civil rights concerns. ... The policies and practices that are used in racial profiling (such as those on immigrants) have caused destruction on individuals,...

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"Any Negro who displayed a spark of manhood, a southern law enforcement officer could say "Nigger, watch your step or I"ll put you in jail"." ... (King p. 35) Black and White alike lived in a state of fear, a fear that caused silence to the unjust way Black Americans were treated. ... Direct action is a response to what Martin Luther King calls unjust laws, he explains the difference between just laws and unjust laws as well as gives a specific definition of the two. "An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obe...

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"Any Negro who displayed a spark of manhood, a southern law enforcement officer could say "Nigger, watch your step or I"ll put you in jail"." ... (King p. 35) Black and White alike lived in a state of fear, a fear that caused silence to the unjust way Black Americans were treated. ... Direct action is a response to what Martin Luther King calls unjust laws, he explains the difference between just laws and unjust laws as well as gives a specific definition of the two. "An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obe...

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"Any Negro who displayed a spark of manhood, a southern law enforcement officer could say "Nigger, watch your step or I"ll put you in jail"." ... (King p. 35) Black and White alike lived in a state of fear, a fear that caused silence to the unjust way Black Americans were treated. ... Direct action is a response to what Martin Luther King calls unjust laws, he explains the difference between just laws and unjust laws as well as gives a specific definition of the two. "An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obe...

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Finally, King addresses the fact that he was urging people to break "unjust" laws. King says "One has not only the legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral obligation to disobey unjust laws.... Augustine "an unjust law is no law at all" he consciously uses this quote so to reference a source that would be of respect to the Clergymen but also to help support the fact that he believes that the manner in which he is breaking the laws is to better the community. King is considered to be a nuisance due to the fact that he was breaking ...

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He recalls unjust treatment in the courts, bombings of homes, and general brutality towards Negroes. ... King has a eloquent way with his words in comparing the treatment of Negroes with how the clergy would react if the unjust treatment were directed towards them. ... All through the letter, King questions the laws of humans compared to that of God's laws. He also brings into question whether or not Negroes breaking laws were any worse than white "heroes" of the past that had broken laws in an effort to do justice. He suggests that the colonists defending themselves against unfair an...

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Civil Disobedience is the refusal to obey the laws which are seen as unjust in an effort to bring about a chnage in governmental policy. ... It was against the law, so she was arrested. ... In 1957 and 1960, two federal laws called the Civil Rights Act were passed. They reaffirmed equality of the races and made many racist state laws known as Jim Crow Laws. ... Civil Disobedience Civil Disobedience like stated before is the refusal to obey a law or follow a policy believed to be unjust. ...

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In December 1956, the United States of America Supreme Court proclaimed that Alabama's segregation laws were unconstitutional. ... King preached that there were just laws and unjust laws and they had the right to go against the unjust laws. ... While in jail, King wrote his acclaimed essay "Letter from Birmingham Jail", urging the white population of America to put a stop to segregation, asking them to see how truly unjust the punishment of African-Americans was and that African-Americans were people who only wanted to gain their full civil rights one hundred years after they became citiz...

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During the late 19th century, local governments passed segregation laws that were known as the Jim Crow laws. ... Severe and unjust laws were created to instil segregation especially within the South. These laws limited the civil liberties of the people that were affected by them mainly African-Americans, these laws also enlisted them to be inferior (Hall,2005). ... This movement practiced the laws of civil disobedience which showed how people were willing to risk any form of danger and even go to jail to overcome this chaotic period of time. ... The formal end of segregation in the USA was se...

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Affirmative action in college admissions should be outlawed because it is an unjust process which ends up promoting further discrimination, and it does not make up for America's past injustices toward minorities. ... In the same court case, it was stated by Michigan Law School's expert that "in 2000, 35 percent of underrepresented minority applicants were admitted. ... If affirmative action is considered constitutional under strict scrutiny, these statistics should not exist in a law-abiding university. ... "Undoubtedly[,] there are other ways to better the education of law students ...

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Whatever the reason, slavery was now against the law. ... Affirmative Action Laws AA laws prohibit discriminatory practices and bias treatment. AA laws are composed of federal and state statutes that are based upon the Constitution of the US. ... The AA Quota system was designed to redistribute the unjust enrichment of the past. ... In addition, AA laws allowed for minority student's admission in schools that would not have been accessibl...

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At UC Berkeley, African Americans made up 6.3% of freshmen in 1995 and 3.4% last fall. " This drop in enrollment of African Americans at California state colleges may be due in part to Proposition 209, passed as a law in 1996, which eliminates affirmative action measures in California in both the workplace and college. ... And gaining entry to America's elite universities is difficult; the perception, right or wrong, that race can in some circumstances trump merit strikes many as unjust, not least because universities play a large role in social mobility. " The main problem with affi...

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The way she was living her life, she became used to obeying the "blacks only" and "whites only" rules of the segregation laws. Although she obeyed them, she found them quite humiliating and very unjust. ... "In the past, it was a law in the American south that African-American riders had to sit at the back of the bus. ... They all organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott that lasted until the bus segregation laws were changed." ... However, there was more work that needed to be done because this law was limited. ...

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During his childhood, King was faced with many hardships due to the segregation laws in his area. ... Martin Luther King's parents told their son that all their lives blacks suffered through many unjust situations because of the racist whites. ... In November of 1956, the Supreme Court was greatly influenced by all the civil rights fighters and made the decision that previously standing segregation laws in Alabama were unconstitutional. ... Although in reality, not all racial discrimination stopped with the segregation laws, conditions could only improve from that point, which was exac...

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Discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. ... "In the covenant of marriage, she is becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master – the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty and to administer chastisement.... Women's rights weren't the only unjust actions of the government. ...

• Word Count: 1861
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Rosa Parks, through protest and a single act of bravery has become the mother of the civil rights movement, changing the segregation laws forever. ... In Rosa Parks act of defiance, she proved that it is possible for a person to make a stand against unjust laws and make a difference. ...

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He made an unjust choice when he was a schoolboy. ... According to Christopher Freeburg, "What is interesting about Baldwin's notion of the historical trap is the relationship between changing laws of white society and changing hearts or moral consciousness" (222). ...

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In spite of the fact that there are laws that say blacks are no longer second class citizens, they are still treated differently than their white counterparts. ... The speaker seems to feel as though America's potential to be a great country has been wasted in an unjust treatment of its black citizens. ...

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The NAACP took on legal battles concerning civil matters varying from unjust arrests and convictions, Pink Franklin case, to the desegregation of public schools, Brown vs. the Board of Education. ... After becoming bored with practicing law, Johnson met up with his brother Rosamond in 1899 and the two of them over the years would compose many pieces of music with the most recognizable being "Lift Every Voice and Sing." ...

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In the stories "Raymond's Run" and "Gorilla My Love," Toni Cade Bambara, writes about unusual heroines - both called Hazel. However the character in "Raymond's Run," is known as and is referred to as Squeaky, mainly because of her voice, and because of the way that she is presented. To the reader, i...

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