Martin Luther King's Violation Of The Law

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Martin Luther King understood as an essential condition of human dignity, racial equality, which was on the other party entitled, at the political level, by the principles of American democracy (which always declared supporter), and the moral plane, for religious principles. Consequently, the action to the conquest of one's rights should not be ever considered subversive or revolutionary. King did not proclaim the violation of the law, but argued that they can not obey unjust laws, because they are against the moral law. He is pointing the way of love as opposed to the inactivity of liabilities black and exasperated hatred of nationalists. And it hurt not been helped and understood by the white church.
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