In case the unfair law was not possible to be changed by way of regular legal channels, intentional breaching of that particular law may be defensible. Since the person committing civil disobedience had utmost regard for the value of law, he would breach the unfair law in gay abandon, and he would eagerly acknowledge the outcomes for infringing it. He will get involved in breaching the law and admit its punishment as a vehicle of drawing the interest of the community to the dissipation of that particular law. (the Civil Rights Movement: The Immigrant Heritage of America) King also stressed how significant it was that the civil rights campaign did not percolate to the stage of racists and hate mongers they struggled against. The ideology of King of strength of character and softhearted nature was not just highly effectual; however, it gave the civil rights movement an exciting moral authority and elegance. (Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement)
References
Austin, Curtis J. On Violence and Nonviolence: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. Retrieved at http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/features/feature24/ms_civil_rights.html. Accessed on 20 May, 2005
Coombs, Norman. The Civil Rights Movement. The Immigrant Heritage of America....
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