... at the hands of the state, via its courts and laws. But if the state breaches its role and violates an individual or groups rights - by creating and enforcing unjust laws - what course of action is left open to them? The question arises should citizens have the right (or even on occasion the obligation), to break any law that has been founded in a democratic society, where the laws are made for the general well being of that society, and, by it's elected representatives, if they believe the law to be Wholly unjust? M. Walzer writes: "The social contract "would in point of right be dissolved"1a if a single citizen were treated wrongly. The victims of injustice are released from every social bond; they are free in society, or they are free out of it, for they can never rightly be oppressed."1 While in Birmingham, Alabama city jail Martin ...

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