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tradition in the university,

the church, and the wider public square. The lectures on this podcast are organized by university

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I hope that tonight's lecture will be up to the high standards that have preceded us in this room.

And may St. Thomas pray for us and gain wisdom for us.

Okay.

Martin Luther King and the question of unjust laws. What happens when the courts or the people get the law wrong?

This past January, as every January, we celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King, a hero of the American Civil Rights Movement,

and Americans are right to be proud of Dr. King

and the movement he led and guided.

But I would suggest that if we really want to understand Dr. King, his movement, and his leadership,

the way he understood it, in the terms that he laid out for it, we should look at what he said

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