Kings Fight For Justice
Justice is like a breath of air: each person is entitled to it, and is born with the right to take it. Definitions can sometimes lack the true meaning of a term. For example, justice has a different meaning to each person. The Webster Dictionary defines justice as: "Conformity to truth and reality in expressing opinions and in conduct; fair representation of facts respecting merit or demerit; honesty; fidelity; impartiality; as, the justice of a description or of a judgment; historical justice."(806) However, perhaps it is not the definition of the word, but the way the term in used and interpreted which gives the term it's true definition. Justice knows no race. Dr. Martin Luther King describes justice in his essay, "Letter from Birmingham Jail." King had been imprisoned for participating in sit-ins at lunch counters; he was searching for racial equality. King went to jail for a cause he believed in; he was fighting for not only his rights, but also justice. King wrote his essay in an attempt to gain justice, not only for himself, but also for all African Americans. King is a
King was perhaps the most influential leader for African American rights. However, sometimes it is easier to define something by defining that which is opposite. " (159) King felt it ridiculous that he should have to obey a law inflicted upon him without having the right to vote for or against it. An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. Perhaps if one knew these injustices, he could truly appreciate justice. a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. Laws are intended to preserve justice. It does not see black and white, but is the equilibrium among the two. This is why it was King's point that if one could not participate in the law-making process (voting), then it was unjust for the laws to be directed at him. Justice lives within the Constitution. In this country, women are not granted the simple justices we undervalue. Justice is something that is taken for granted in the United States of America.
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