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.
Interpretation
Laws should align with moral principles to be considered just; otherwise, they are unjust.
Martin Luther King Jr. emphasizes the importance of morality in creating laws. He argues that a law is just when it is consistent with what is inherently right or ethical, reflecting a higher moral code, while unjust laws deviate from this moral compass, leading to injustice in society.
In practice
During a civil rights speech to highlight the importance of moral law in fighting segregation.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
I do not believe in race as such. Race is a fraud. All modern people are the conglomeration of so many ethnic mixtures that no pure race remains.
Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.
We live in condensations of our imagination
The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.
At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we know by instinct that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
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