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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"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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• Grade Level: High School

"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...

• Word Count: 1711
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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...

• Word Count: 1704
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• Has Bibliography
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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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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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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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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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He was unjustly charged with the rape of the Mayella Ewell. ... It seemed the whole town knew and agreed that the case against Tom was an unjust one, though it was know that a black man would not win a case filed by a white woman in a court of law - even if most people agreed that he was innocent. ...

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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. ...

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The well renowned professor of law at Yale, Peter Schuck described affirmative action as "A program in which people who control access to important social resources offer preferential access to those resources for particular groups that they think need special treatment" (Schuck 5.) ... In fact, as we are experiencing today, the government also created discriminating policies in the past, including Jim Crow laws and slavery. ... For a company to be able to only hire from a certain skin color is unjust. ...

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Eventually, these laws expanded to incorporate women and other ethnic minorities including American Indians and Hispanics. Laws have also broadened affirmative action to public universities as well as businesses. ... This discrimination is unjust and uncalled for. ... Two other prominent states have or are considering laws affecting admissions in universities. After a Federal appeals court threw out the University of Texas' admission system favoring minorities in 1996, Texas passed a state law guaranteeing the top 10 percent of graduates from every Texas high school a spot at any publi...

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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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Even the most despicable of characters can be worthy of sympathy. Sympathy is defined as the feeling of pity for a person. One can only receive sympathy if they have been plagued with despair and misfortune. In a novel such as To Kill a Mockingbird, it is hard to sympathize with any characters due t...

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• Grade Level: High School

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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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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• Grade Level: High School