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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