Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. How does King rebut his critics’ claim?

King responds by distinguishing just laws from unjust laws. He argues that people have a moral responsibility to obey just laws but to resist unjust ones, and he explains that segregation laws are unjust because they deny people equal rights. This directly questions the fairness of the laws, so the correct choice is “by questioning the fairness of the laws in a counterclaim.”

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