Just and unjust

Dee 2022-04-22 07:01:39

Who is the judge?

The judge is God?

Why is he God?

Because he decides who wins or loses not my opponent.

Who is your opponent?

It does not exist.

Why does he not exist?

Because he is mute distance voice the truth that I speak.

Just say the truth.

This movie shocked me and reminded me of the topic which I have prepeaered for in the AW GRE. It says that: there are two types of laws: just and unjust. Every individual in a society has a responsibility to obey just laws and, even more importantly, to disobey and resist unjust laws. I remembered clearly that at that time, this topic made me hard and I really did not know how to write, I even did not understand what they convey to me.

This movie gives me the spark, which enlightens me and gives me a inspiration. There are one sentence embed my heart:
St. Augustine said:

"An unjust law is no law at all."

Which means

I have a right, even a duty to resist.

With violence or civil disobedience...

You should pray I choose the later.

To be continued. .

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The Great Debaters quotes

  • Melvin B. Tolson: Take the meanest, most restless nigger. Strip him of his clothes in front of the remaining male niggers, female niggers, and nigger infants, tar and feather him, tie each leg to a horse facing an opposite direction, set him on fire, and beat both horses until they tear him apart in front of male, female and nigger infants. Bullwhip and beat the remaining nigger males within an inch of their life. Do not kill them but put the fear of God in them, for they can be useful for future breeding. Anybody know who Willie Lynch was? Anybody? Raise your hand. No one? He was a vicious slave owner in the West Indies. The slave-masters in the colony of Virginia were having trouble controlling their slaves, so they sent for Mr. Lynch to teach them his methods. The word "lynching" came from his last name. His methods were very simple, but they were diabolical. Keep the slave physically strong but psychologically weak and dependent on the slave master. Keep the body, take the mind.

  • Henry Lowe: School's the only place you can read all day. Except prison.