Ann: Do you think…
Ann: Do you think everyone should be allowed to pick and choose, and to follow only those laws that they personally consider tasteful?
No, everyone should be allowed to pick and choose, and to follow only those laws that are, in fact, just. Forcing people to comply with unjust laws is tyranny, and doing so in the name of “the rule of law” is just tyranny with a powdered wig on.
You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. … One may well ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer is found in the fact that there are two types of laws: There are just and there are unjust laws. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just 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.”
—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Emphasis added.
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