The Civil Disobedience essay was so thick and really hard for me to read. The point brought up in paragraph 8, about When a honest man can rebel, is interesting. It says that when the country is ‘unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army’, that’s when you can break laws and revolt. In the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Reading, Martin Luther King speaks so kindly, yet so assertively. Take the couple of lines at the top of page 216. “It is unfortunate that demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city’s white power structure left the Negro community with no alternative”. He has a way with words that lets him assert his point without trying to sound too overpowering. I believe, based particularly on the Martin Luther King reading, that it is time to break a law when the law begins to damage people. You cannot have laws that do damage (mental or physical) to a certain group of people, because thats not just. Like Martin Luther King says, “A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law” (pg 218).
