 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1971 - 514 pages
...Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. And he continues : I hope you are able to see the distinction I am trying to point out. In no sense... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1971 - 572 pages
...Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. ... I would agree with... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1972 - 1232 pages
...Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. And he continues: I hope you are able to see the distinction I am trying to point out. In no sense... | |
 | Martha Rainbolt, Janet Fleetwood - 1983 - 370 pages
...Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority.... | |
 | William Carl Placher - 1988 - 230 pages
...Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority.... | |
 | Herbert C. Kelman, V. Lee Hamilton - 1989 - 408 pages
...Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. (King, 1969, pp. 72, Th King's philosophical rationale for secular disobedience was not new. The ideal... | |
 | Gayraud S. Wilmore - 1989 - 500 pages
...incentives."54 In the seclusion of the Birmingham City Jail in 1963, Martin Luther King wrote boldly that "all segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality." King's assertions that "a just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law," and "an unjust... | |
 | Richard Viladesau, Mark Stephen Massa - 1991 - 348 pages
...Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority, and the segregated a false sense of inferiority.... | |
 | Hugo Adam Bedau - 1991 - 232 pages
...expression of man's tragic separation, an expression of his awful estrangement, his terrible sinfulness? So I can urge men to disobey segregation ordinances because they are morally wrong. Let us turn to a more concrete example of just and unjust laws. An unjust law is a code that a majority... | |
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An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul... 
