... United States. He believed the rights of people to live free of domination by others is the most fundamental goal of democracy. The will of the majority becomes the law but that law must protect the rights of everyone, not just those of the majority. King also believed in civil disobedience, when acted for the correct reasons, was a useful tool to fight ... step to fight segregation. He ended the separation of blacks and whites. He believed that any law that uplifts human personality was just and any law that degrades human personality was unjust. As we read in in the essay "Letter from...

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... became the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1954 the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in schools was illegal in all pubic schools because the white schools always seemed to get the better materials and facilities. Of course, some schools did not desegregate, but most did. Martin was very happy because his goal to stop segregation had begun. In 1955 ... Americans. In 1964 the civil rights act was signed stating that racial discrimination in any public place is illegal and if you continue to practice it you are punishable by law. Also in this year, he ...

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• Has Bibliography
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... laws. I feel that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has defiantly made the better case for his position, thus being, I feel if a state has the right make a law that goes against or effects a minority, if the minority was not allowed to vote, I feel that they should have to right to appeal the ... law, because if a law is made for a group that can't even vote I feel that it is totally done in means of segregation and for the means of the minority group ... having no say in what the laws should and will ultimately become. I also think what Dr. King is trying to say is if a law is created and it ...

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... logical thought when he talks about just and unjust laws. King says "A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law." The Clergymen express great concern over King is willingness to break laws. King replies ... that this is an understandable concern since everyone follows the Supreme Court Decision of 1954 that states; public schools are not ... to be segregated. In other words King is saying the Supreme Court can hand down a just law and yet people do not obey it but yet they expect me to o...

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... logical thought when he talks about just and unjust laws. King says "A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law." The Clergymen express great concern over King is willingness to break laws. King replies ... that this is an understandable concern since everyone follows the Supreme Court Decision of 1954 that states; public schools are not ... to be segregated. In other words King is saying the Supreme Court can hand down a just law and yet people do not obey it but yet they expect me to ob...

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... around. When he won the Brown case it started the 1960's civil rights movement that led to the increased number of black graduates as also the increase of black high schools. There was also a sudden raise in the middle-class blacks. Marshal then created new protection laws for women, children, prisoners, and homeless people. Thurgood Marshal was legal director of the ... the NAACP's Spingarm Medal. Marshal along with Charles Hamilton ( who was the first African American to win a case before the Supreme court ), made a long-term strategy for stopping segregation in schools. It was Marsha...

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... was elected, hope rose that the laws would be repealed, but this was unlikely since the blacks were not allowed to vote. Nearly everything in the south was segregated from schools, to diners, to restrooms. King found it disgusting that even black children were not allowed to use the same facilities as whites, " when you suddenly find yourself twisted and your ... are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority" (King, 146), "An unjust law is a code that a nu...

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