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Injustice Anywhere Is A Threat To Justice Everywhere By Martin Luther King

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Justice is a civil dispersion of limited resources, respect for people's rights, and respect for morally acceptable laws. Martin Luther King Junior states "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" What King means when he says this is that we cannot assume of ourselves as separate from all the other people in the world. As king says he can't sit in Atlanta and think that things in Birmingham do not affect him. Instead, he says, we all have to understand that we are connected to all the other people of the world. This is true because we are all part of the same "garment of destiny".
In the United States there are two types of laws. We have just laws and unjust laws. Martin Luther King Jr. thinks that we the people of the United States

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