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Non Violent Protest – Dr. Martin Luther King's Moral Disobedience!

Varsha Chawdhary
Prof. Hughes
Eng 101 Section 811
13th October 2005
Non violent protest – Dr. Martin Luther King's moral disobedience!
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the issue of non-violence in his letter from Birmingham Jail. He states that any law, which is unjust and inhuman, is not a moral law. Dr. King's argument for non-violent protest against the authorities is just and moral; because any action taken for the greater good of human beings may be called disobedience by the authorities, but as Erich Fromm states in his essay "Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem" -- any act of disobedience against any inhuman law of the state is morally correct and is for the betterment of the human kind. King advocates nonviolence as the only moral way of protest, even though authorities may term it as disobedience, it is an act of obedience according to the human law as stated by Erich Fromm in his essay.
Martin Luther King's letter which was written in April 16, 1963, is an......


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