ENG 1120 Lecture 8: MLK
3 May 2017
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Dr. martin luther king, jr. , was an american clergyman who was a prominent leader in the civil rights movement. In 1964 he became that youngest person to win the nobel peace prize. In 1963 mlk was imprisoned in birmingham, alabama for participating in a civil rights demonstration. Letter from a birmingham jail, martin luther king, jr. Freedom must be actively demanded, not passively awaited: legitimacy of civil disobedience. Unjust laws are no laws at all. Laws must be in harmony with eternal and natural law to be just. Those willing to accept the penalties are justified in violating unjust laws. The nation is at war, and your number in the recently reinstated military draft has just come up.
