Reposted from @daylaborernetwork If you’ve never read Letter From a Birmingham Jail, read it today. @shes_mightymighty (1st slide) & @gaetanocalagna (2nd & 3rd slide plus caption below): ・・・ The Letter from Birmingham Jail is famed for its espousal of #civildisobedience. Dr. King refuted critcisms that his public demonstrations were disorderly and unlawful. He argued that patriotic citizens have the moral duty to opposose unjust laws. "An unjust law is no law at all." Like in the present day, moderates and conservatives argued that citizens could not simply dertermine what constituted a just law or an unjust law. In response, Dr. King cited Thomas Aquinas' theory of eternal and natural law: any law that undermines the human spirit is unjust. Thus, any law inflicted on disenfranchised minorities is unjust. Any law selectively applied to one group of people is unjust. Slavery, segregation, and war are unjust. Laws used to uphold an unjust system are unjust. "Segregation distorts the s...