Excerpt paraphrased for Da VIP Academy from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

You express concern about our willingness to break laws. That is a fair question. We urge people to obey the 1954 decision desegregating schools, so it may seem strange that we would disobey other laws. But there are two kinds of laws: just and unjust. I am the first to urge obedience to just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. By the same token, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

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. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

According to the excerpt, how does King justify disobeying certain laws?

• A.All laws should be ignored during protest.
• B.A law that a majority imposes on a minority without binding itself is unjust, and there is a moral duty to disobey it.
• C.Only courts may decide which laws to follow.
• D.Laws should be obeyed until a new election is held.