4 Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr. about law
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So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.
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In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy.
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We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.
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To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.
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