Martin Luther King's Unjust Law

Martin Luther King was a great leader in the civil rights movement. He fought for freedom by using nonviolence. His inspiring was Mahatma Gandhi, who said progress only happens throughout constant effort. He says unjust law is out of harmony with the moral law, however a just law is manmade law that square with moral law Kant agrees to this ideas too. According to King breaking an unjust law is not considered wrong. We have freedom of birthright which means that we are born as free. From it we are given free right to fight when something is wrong. I think college increasing their tuition every year is not fair. People have being questioning and have done small protest for it.Now the problem is going out of hand. Buying a house is cheaper than …show more content…
In Kings terms he knew he didn 't have the capacity to handle the problem by him so he had a group of people who share the same thoughts as him fighting with him this was known as mass social movement. First I have to try negotiating without direct action which means talking about the problem. After multiple negotiation talks now it is time for direct action gathering people for protests without using any violence. This was done by a act called self-purification which means getting people trained not to fight back, knowing the strength of the purpose, disciplining in terms of reaction and collective unity. If you want to do something then you should do it now don 't keep it for later. Kant and Sartre have the same idea about this concept that there is no perfect or right time to do anything. After that we are talking about civil disobedience, disobeying or breaking a law purposely in public putting yourself in jail. So my fellow leaders and I are refusing to sign or not going pay off the tuition but attending the …show more content…
So listening to their suggestion is a waste of time. The administrators will only lose money from decreasing tuition, big corporations groups only look at their gaining. White supremacist will be the group of people who would say that it is just wrong or unintelligent to do a protest, also that how are people paying for it who already graduated from college. They may think insulting this campaign may put the people down that is exactly what they are trying to do. Since we know what they are doing we are not letting go of our decision. There will power to stop from our cause including the police who will torture me and my fellow protestor, might even hurt and killing some of our member. Protesting helps to melt the oppress heart or change their mind that is what Gandhi and king says which also means it will take a long time to into