In his essay "Civil Disobedience" (1849; originally titled "Resistance to Civil Government"), Thoreau expounded his anarchistic views of government, insisting that if an injustice of government is "of such a nature that it requires injustice to another [you should] break the law [and] let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine".
By contrast, the value of all other desirable qualities, such as courage or cleverness, can be diminished, forgone, or sacrificed under certain circumstances: Courage may be laid aside if it requires injustice, and it is better not to be witty if it requires cruelty.
The judgment declared that convictions can only be set aside by seeking exceptional leave to appeal to the court of appeal out of time but that to do so requires "substantial injustice" to be demonstrated not "simply because the law applied has now been declared to have been mistaken".
Today's most pressing injustices require comprehensive changes in the practices of the police, schools and employers — not simply responses to individual injuries.
To do otherwise is to let injustice stand, and require people to continue to suffer injustice indefinitely and without remedy, to preserve privileges that rely on the perpetuation of injustice and the suffering accompanies it.
But Republicans also realise that there are occasions of such egregious injustice that require federal involvement, and that is precisely what the 14th amendment and the Civil Rights Act were intended to do protect citizens from state and local tyranny.But at this point Mr Paul was in a pickle.
For currently living people to bring about public acknowledgment of past people as victims of historical injustice can require different measures under different circumstances.
Combating such injustice will require moderate conservatives to take a bold stand.
Eventually, such injustice requires more than a change of heart.
Alcoff (2010) suggests that correcting for testimonial injustice requires the adoption of standpoint epistemology: what is needed is not merely neutralizing prejudice, but actively according epistemic privilege to the marginalized.
