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 ...

• Word Count: 1506
• Approx Pages: 6

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...

• Word Count: 1609
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

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
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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). ...

• Word Count: 1511
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

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...

• Word Count: 1484
• Approx Pages: 6
• 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. ...

• Word Count: 1569
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 2209
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School