Just and Unjust Laws
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King's criterion, from the Birmingham jail: a just law squares with the moral law and uplifts human personality; an unjust law degrades it—and merits open, loving resistance.
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Segregation statutes were his case: laws binding a minority the minority had no part in making.
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The criterion presupposes a moral standard above statutes—a direct rejection of cultural relativism.
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