An idea from Summa Theologica

A human law that breaks with the law of nature is no longer a law but a perversion of law. Augustine put it shorter: a law that is not just, seems to be no law at all. Martin Luther King Jr. used this reasoning from a Birmingham jail in 1963.

From Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas

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