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Thurgood Marshall:
Martin Luther King. Great leader. But he would dump all his legal work on us, including the bills. Oh, I had a lot of fights with Martin about his theory of disobeying the law. You see, I didn't believe in that. My approach was to use the law... not to break it. I told Martin: "You have two rights: you have the right to disobey the law, you also have the right to go the jail for it". And you know Martin kept talking to me about Henry David Thoreau's theory of civil disobedience. I would remind him, "Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience IN JAIL!"
Martin Luther King. Great leader. But he would dump all his legal work on us, including the bills. Oh, I had a lot of fights with Martin about his theory of disobeying the law. You see, I didn't believe in that. My approach was to use the law... not to break it. I told Martin: "You have two rights: you have the right to disobey the law, you also have the right to go the jail for it". And you know Martin kept talking to me about Henry David Thoreau's theory of civil disobedience. I would remind him, "Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience IN JAIL!"
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Martin Luther King great leader
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But he would dump all his legal work on us including the bills
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Oh I had a lot of fights with Martin about his theory of disobeying the law
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Look see I didn't believe in that
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My approach was to use the law not to break it
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I told Martin I said You have two rights You have a right
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to disobey the law You also have a right to go to jail for it
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And you know Martin kept talking to me about
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Henry David Thoreau's Theory of Civil Disobedience
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I would remind him
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Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience in jail
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Movie Summary
Prior to his appointment to United States Supreme Court Thurgood Marshall worked as a lawyer for the NAACP. This one man play tells the story of his role in the civil rights movement and the people that influenced him.
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Thurgood Marshall
