Letter From Birmingham Jail

Reread Paragraphs 13-18. How does Dr. King explain his decision to break the law?

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Dr. King insists that everyone has a “legal” and “moral responsibility” to follow just laws, but that one equally “has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws” (174). He cites St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas to justify this latter claim.