society has set up governments. To maintain order and to give us safety. If this is so, then why are there and have there been "unjust" laws? When Dr. King said that he would aid a Jew in Nazi Germany, he said so knowing that he would be breaking German law. He would be doing it because it is right and in the best interests of the masses and not the man made laws.Some would call MLK Jr.'s actions as "civil disobedience". What actually MLK Jr. would be doing is helping and giving comfort to victims of an unjust and wrongful law. Can there be any wrong doing in that; especially since it is in the publics best interest, to maintain order and safety?Civil disobedience is both a right and the responsibility of a person to fight an unjust law. People make decisions everyday inaccordance with God's laws or the governments laws. They make a choice between the two, and they go with it. It's decided upon according to what they believe is right. Our conscience and in that conscience what we think is just and unjust, evolves with time and with society. Each and everyday you wake up, something you thought was wrong is now not so wrong and something you thought was right is not so right anymore. This is true with everyone and everything. Henery David Thoreaus Civil Disobedience, he makes a good point with, Why does it (government) not encourage its citizens to be on the alert to point out its faults and do better than it would have them?(A World Of Ideas 143). He just restates what the government is based on, checks and balances, that society changes and the government needs to recognize this constant change! It took hundreds and thousands of years for people to realize that slavery was unjust and unlawfull, but it happened and now that it has we see slavery in a new light. Woman struggled to gain the god given rights they've had since Adam gave his rib for their creation for just as long as slavery existed if not a bit longer. Now we se...
