What Is Civil Disobedience Unjust

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Civil disobedience is only Permissible when there is a good cause only when it will be beneficial and make things just. So when asking if civil disobedienceshould ever be allowed, I believe that laws should be broken if they are unjust. During the civil rights movement, African Americans were not allowed to have the same rights as whites and were not allowed in the same places but is that right? For what reasonshould one race not be allowed but another allowed. Discrimination and racism is an example, laws saying that blacks and whites had to be separated is unjust. African Americans protesting for there rights is seen as civildisobedience but it may actually be necessary for people to finally see how idiotic and unjust those laws are. People now understand that is was unjust but what if there were no civil disobedience, what if African Americans never fought back. I feel as though a lot of people would never actually see that they were wrong or learn that segregation and discrimination is extremely unjust and that maybe the only way for people to see that is to disagree.…show more content…
In Martin Luther King Jrs. Letter from Birmingham Jail, King’s letter is in response to eight clergymen that agreed that social injustices existed but argued that the battle against racial segregation should be fought solely in the courts, not in the streets. King believed that that without nonviolent forceful direct actions such as his, true civil rights could never be achieved. He believed that not only is civil disobedience justified in the face of unjust laws, but that “one has the moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws”. He believes that civil disobedience was necessary for others to see the wrong in the laws of segregation and
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