University protests and working past retirement age...

[Charles Fout]

Columbia grew a set of cojones and told all student protesters that if they don't disperse by 2:00pm they'll be suspended. Hopefully other schools follow suit.

“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law”
-MLK Jr.


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Joe the engineer

Very interesting MLK Jr. quote, could you explain your understanding of the end part of it? I tried to google explainers for this quote and nothing comes up. I would love to get a deeper context for this. Why he thought that expressed respect for the law. I don't have an agenda and am not being snarky, genuinely curious and wanting to understand, I find myself agreeing and want to understand the meaning deeper.

It was from a letter that Dr. King wrote while imprisoned in a Birmingham jail for protesting segregation. He essentially meant that it is just to disobey or break unjust laws. He was referring to segregation, voting rights for Black citizens, things of that nature. He went on to point out that everything Hitler did was technically "legal", but that people shouldn't passively accept evil things done under the guise of law, because doing so is perpetuating evil. 

"I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws," he wrote. "Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that 'an unjust law is no law at all.'"

You can read more about it here https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/ml...cna1287569

anguage of Leadership: MLK's Letter from Birmingham Jail

https://youtu.be/HcILwmveBBU?si=DlEd0uAZ7dllzAdV