The Morality of the Law Civil disobedience is the resistance to unjust laws. Henry David Thoreau sparked this revelation when he wrote “Civil Disobedience.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used many of the ideas of Thoreau to expand on the ideas of civil disobedience when he wrote “Letter From Birmingham City Jail.” Henry David Thoreau and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. both used civil disobedience as a way to improve the law and require society …showed first 75 words of 1176 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1176 total…the values of the American people. This was possible in the past because of a low morality level of the law. All that needed to be changed was the law. Today moral values need to be set by the individual, not by the law as in the times of Dr. King and Thoreau. One must set their moral standards to what they know is right, and not merely what the law allows them to do.