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.
The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
Our original nature is...void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy - and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself.
Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.
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