Socrates Vs King In the two reading assignments that were assigned each of the characters argue whether breaking the law is just or unjust. ... Socrates being a firm believer in what is just and unjust supports his position that escaping from prison and fleeing in exile to an adjacent city would be unjust because by him doing this would result in breaking the commitments that he has agreed upon by the courts after he was found guilty. ... Martin Luther King Jr. on the other hand, feels that the segregation laws that the black people had to abide by were unjust laws, and the blacks were discr...

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He however does go on to state that he believes that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. He believes it is very obvious to distinguish the difference in a just and unjust law. ... He first states that " Any law that uplifts human personality is just and any law that degrades human personality is unjust."" He emphasizes that all segregation laws are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages personality. ... These two illustrations of the differences between just and unjust laws are very straightforward and understandable. ...

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Social Unjust Cause and Effect Paragraph How can the color of someone's skin, rely on who they are and how they should be treated? ... Martin Luther King states, "An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the Moral Law." In society, an example of a social unjust that is of the past and present is racism. ... Segregation was a very common thing, and it was also an unjust law. America had made a law saying that all public facilities would be separated, one marked "white" and the other marked "colored." ...

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He provides clear explanations of "just" and "unjust" laws. King defines "Just" laws as a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God" (159). "Unjust" laws is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law (159). As times back then, being religious was important, King identifies "unjust" laws almost as a contradiction to God's laws and "just" laws was not. ... King directed the moral laws to his audience to convince them that what the white men is doing is unjust. ...

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Nearly every society will have two different internal law codes, that of what is "just" and what is "unjust." ... Nearly every society has two types of internal laws: just and unjust. In "Ordinary Men," the execution of the Jews was clearly unjust, however, we consider these acts to be immoral because our internal law of justice tells us that it is wrong to harm somebody without cause. ... The difference between their time and the culture around them and ours allows us to clearly define such action as unjust and to abhor them. ... On the other hand, we can see now that, morally, the discrimi...

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"An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself a law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law," (King, p 1307). A law becomes injustice when a specific group of people were denied voting rights. ... King used logo, a logical appeal, to clarify the, "unjust law codes," that people of color were forced to abide by. ... "Unjust law" indicates the outrageous regulations that many Afri...

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He distinguishes between just and unjust laws addressing the clergymen's anxiousness over the black man's "willingness to break laws" by quoting St. Augustine "An unjust law is no law at all" [3]. To sum up his point he mentions Hitler's laws and how he would've broken them to help the Jews. ...

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He discusses Nebuchadnezzar, and how people in that time refused to obey his laws because they were unjust, just as King did in Birmingham. ... King's is an intelligent African American who has been jailed unjustly but yet holds no grudges. He uses historical facts and religious references as logos and pathos toward the white clergy, and uses his pathos of being a black man in an unjust world to appeal to the black society being unfairly treated. ...

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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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With the apartheid being put into force in 1948, racial discrimination laws came about. This included the law that whites could not marry nonwhites. Therefore, the law is forbidding two people to marry if they are of opposite color. ... Only the Africans had to go by the unjust laws, and face harsh punishment if they laws were to be broken. ... The citizens overcame the harsh laws, and rebuilt their lives. ...

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Ferguson case, blacks felt that segregation in education was unjust, and often petitions and suits were filled against states. ... He says "In equality declared by our fathers in 1776, and made the fundamental law of Massachusetts in 1780, was Equality before the law". ... The black and white are not equal before the law. ... The decision of the Brown case not only desegregated schools, but showed Americans the Blacks finally had equality in the law. ... Ferguson case separate but equal was law, but rarely ever the case. ...

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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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Since the amendments weren't enforced the majority of the time there were ways for racist southerners to work around the law making it impossible for Blacks to put their new rights into action. ... They bent the laws to work in their favor and were free to terrorize, hang, shoot, and rape slaves anyway they felt like. ... There are ground breakers such as Frederick Douglass, Samuel Gompers, Anthony Comstock, etc. in every generation that give new ideals and forms of thinking; they challenge norms and unjust laws. ... This is why Americans believed in nativism and created restrictions an...

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In the writing done by Thomas Paine he stresses the fact that it is unjust to live under the kings rule, so far away from the motherland. ... "Violation of the laws of Nature and of Nation and in defiance of all the tender feelings of humanity, brought hither to be like Beasts of Burden" this quote was taken from Petition to the Massachusetts General Assembly, this is different than all the other selections because Hall is not talking about the British in the writing. ...

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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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Although, the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, which Abraham Lincoln signed, gave freedom to slaves, there were still Jim Crow laws that forced African Americans to still be seen as unequal in society. ... If any African Americans dared challenge these laws, they were physically threatened, beaten, executed with a gun, or lynched. ... Although all slaves were treated cruel and unjust, women had it worst in the world. ...

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King vowed that until the Negro members of society were granted the same rights as the white man he would continue to violate those laws which were morally unjust in an attempt to bring about justice stating that "It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. ... King implies that until the morally unjust laws cease to be thrust upon generations of Negros they cannot be satisfied, laws will not be granted authority until moral factors are considered for all races. ... Wallace also implied that without the authoritative power those laws would cease to be laws and the...

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After 1820 thousands of British colonists arrived in South Africa, and they demanded that English law be imposed. ... With the enactment of apartheid laws in 1948, racial discrimination was institutionalized. ... Non-compliance with the race laws was dealt with harshly. ... In 1953, the Public Safety Act and the Criminal Law Amendment Act were passed, which empowered the government to declare stringent states of emergency and increased penalties for protesting against or supporting the repeal of a law. ... Wielding the Public Safety Act and the Criminal Law Amendment Act, the white regi...

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The government reacted to internal resistance by passing further repressive laws which caused even more resistance to the apartheid system. ... As black resistance grew, the National Party Government took harsh repressive action in the form of violence and new laws. In 1960, the Pan-African Congress leaders organized nationwide peaceful demonstrations against 'pass laws' that restricted individual freedom. ... The Sharpeville massacre clearly brought change to South Africa because it caused many people to be aware of how unjust and the violent the apartheid government was willing to...

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Concluding, the methods used for fighting for equality only worked because there were both races involved in the movement, the majority of protests were peaceful, it was undeniable that America's procedures and laws were wrong and unjust this was notified particularly because of the world events at the time and signified the time for change. ...

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Throughout his life, King dedicated so much time to the civil rights movement because of the many limits placed on him by Jim Crow Laws as he was growing up as well as the many influences of both people and religion throughout his life. ... During his childhood, King was faced with many hardships as a result of the segregation laws in his area. ... His parents told their son that all their live blacks suffered trough 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 ...

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