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QuoteAges 14–15 · The Moral Imagination
One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that 'an unjust law is no law at all.'
Martin Luther King Jr., 1963
Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963

King invoking Augustine and Aquinas to ground civil disobedience in natural law.

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