Exploring the moral responsibility to defy unjust laws peacefully, drawing comparisons to prominent thinkers like Hayek and Martin Luther King, Jr. Critiquing discriminatory laws and discussing the difficulties of advocating for change in an imperfect world, supplemented by anecdotes of personal adversity.
When poet, lawyer, and MacArthur Fellow Dwayne Betts was imprisoned for nine years at the age of 16 for carjacking, he only wept twice. One of those times was when he read Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." In this powerful conversation with EconTalk's Russ Roberts, Betts explains why he cried, what he learned from King, King's urgency in the face of injustice, and Betts's thoughts on writing the introduction to a new volume of King's letter.