After reading Plato’s Crito, Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, and Malcolm X’s “The Bullet or the Ballot”, it is clear that all three of these men were attracted to the natural conception of a law, which holds that an unjust law is not really a law. However, it is also clear that Socrates had a contrasting different view on a citizen’s obligation to obey the law.

The Crito is a dialogue, written by Plato, that takes place in Socrates’ prison cell where he awaits execution. In this dialogue, Socrates’ good friend, Crito, presents several arguments in which he tries to convince Socrates to escape death and flee Athens. However, through several arguments of his own, Socrates eventually convinces his friend that complying with the death sentence, which was unjustly place upon him, is more important than any of Crito’s conce

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