unjust laws means laws that are not just,unfair,cruel or bad laws.The existence of law is a must , but it also must be just and humane,man made law,should never turn into bad laws,inglorious or unjust law.when and where law turn glorious or bad.
Civil disobedience
Break unjust laws, be prepared to go to jail, but do not be violent. He learned non-violent resistance.
Thoreau refers to civil disobedience as merley a right to show that the people have the say of what they believe in its their duty to stand for the unjust laws
"We can gain civil rights for African Americans through legal challenges to unjust laws."
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse - 1950 The Just and the Unjust - 1.26 was released on: USA: 20 March 1951
Just and unjust laws : According to Dr . Martin Luther King Jr . . . . Should it not be so that a judge decides what laws are just and what laws are unjust
-identifies unjust laws. -speaks against unjust laws. -willing to accept the consequences of his or her actions.
Civil disobedience
people should resist unfair laws (apex)
Yes. Lawmakers are only human, and they can make unjust laws quite often. Many of the racially related laws from the segregation/civil rights era were unjust. If a black man and a white woman kissed, he was breaking the law, though she wasn't.
using methods of civil disobedience, that is, refusing to obey laws considered to be unjust. =)
his actions were not wrong because the laws were unjust
his actions were not wrong because the laws were unjust ;)
James Otis
his actions were not wrong because the laws were unjust ;)
I think that the drinking age is an unjust law because you can go to war, vote, drive, and smoke ,but you can not drink. I think that is unfair.
"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so." The general meaning of this quotation being that a law that is placed on unfair terms is a type of violence and the arrest for it is even more unjust.