Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern.How does King rebut his critics’ claim?

King acknowledges that concern about breaking laws is legitimate, then challenges the idea that every law must be obeyed simply because it is a law. He distinguishes just laws from unjust laws and argues that people have a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. This rebuts his critics by questioning whether the laws they are defending are fair.

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