Word: unjustly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Martin Luther King's jailing in Birmingham, Ala., which gave new respectability to the strategy of disobedience to unjust laws...
...Harris, a Negro, pointed out that blacks would have made little progress if they had relied on lawful tactics alone. "A nation whose history enshrines the civil disobedience of the Boston Tea Party," she said, "cannot fail to recognize at least the symbolic merit of demonstrated hostility to unjust laws...
...superior wisdom or skill, to be directed to ends so contrary to his own nature and will, and the general good of mankind. But it is that honest wisdom which is consistent with a good conscience, and an ornament to it. Prudence is subtlety refined from all base and unjust views, as subtlety is wisdom
...form of organized violence. What we really need is a liberation of minds, not a beating of heads. And for this you need more than a revolutionary vanguard-elite, but rather a large segment of the society. Isn't a revolution that alienates most of a population as unjust and immoral as the government it seeks to replace...
...judge illustrates a key weakness in U.S. legal process. "This shows that the fragile legal system functions only if everyone is willing to some extent to play the game by the rules," says Professor Yale Kamisar of the University of Michigan Law School. Believing that the game was unjust, Scale refused to play by the rules. And the able but adamant Hoffman has been unable to teach him any respect for the referee...