The commitment to his inner law led him to breaking the laws of the land. ... All of these men broke the unjust laws, but they did so "openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty" (King 1854). ... King knew that love and justice were lacking in laws of man. ... Harry Emerson Fosdick meant when he said "inner law is written on the heart, man-made laws assure justice, but a higher law produces love". ... Inner law or natural law would deem numerous aspects and actions of the above quotation to be unjust. ...

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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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" Questioning the sacred law of the land, was a powerful move on his part, because it caused all Americans to think about what the words in the Constitution meant. ... Augustine that ;an unjust law is no law at all.'" ...

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