Civil Disobedience

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This paper describes the leaderships of two of the greatest political/social leaders of the 20th century, Mahatmas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., and how they both masterfully used civil disobedience to make the world a better place and demonstrate that one person can indeed make a difference.

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"As to injustice, King alludes that "The answer (for injustice) is found in the fact that there are two types of laws. There are just laws and there are unjust laws"; "Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with Saint Augustine that "An unjust law is no law at all" (Lincoln 157). These statements make complete sense as seen through the eyes of Dr. King, for he believes that any law which is unjust, i.e. a law that discriminates against an individual or a group, must not be obeyed; a person has a "moral responsibility" to disobey such laws for the good of society but only through non-violent disobedience, much like Henry David Thoreau's unwillingness to pay his taxes and spend time in jail and Gandhi's disobedience which sent him to prison several times and placed his life in great jeopardy."

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