Yet history reminds us that laws have also defended injustice, prolonged inequality, and restricted opportunity. This sentence asks us to distinguish between respect for the rule of law and blind acceptance of every law ever written.
Award-winning poet, playwright, and essayist. Author of four books of poetry, "Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass: Remembrance of Things Past and Present"; "Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats"; "The Black Feminine Mystique," "The Black Blood of Poetry," and a novel, "Streets of Rage," and a collection of short stories, "Conundrums: Stories of Law & Justice," written under his pen name Easy Waters. All four books are available on Amazon.com. Waters has over 25 years of experience in the criminal legal system. He is a change agent for a just society and a catalyst for change.
Amen and Amen! This reminds me of Henry David Thoreau’s 1849 classic, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” and Martin L. King. Jr. use of the concept in his 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
I assign MLK’s letter in the course I teach on African American Literature. Then I
have the students write a letter to a government official, religious leader or prison official, such as the Commissioner of NYS DOCCS. I might do this with the master’s degree program this fall.
William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters 
Amen and Amen! This reminds me of Henry David Thoreau’s 1849 classic, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” and Martin L. King. Jr. use of the concept in his 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
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Yes. I assign MLK’s Letter in the course I teach on African American Literature in the 20th Century. Then have the students write a letter.
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I assign MLK’s letter in the course I teach on African American Literature. Then I
have the students write a letter to a government official, religious leader or prison official, such as the Commissioner of NYS DOCCS. I might do this with the master’s degree program this fall.
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