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Martin Luther King Unjust Freedom

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When talking about an individual’s civil right to freedom, King explains that it is not voluntarily given but has to be demanded by those in which it affects as it is a constitutional and God given right. The laws that impede a man his basic right to freedom are unjust and they have a right as well as the responsibility to break those unjust laws. King describes unjust laws as unmoral and a “human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law… Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.” (King 6). The unjust laws he is describing are those that segregate African Americans and Whites, that which denies the African Americans their right to be in the same room, to share the same items, to live in a world that was founded on freedom.
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