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If we have to disobey unfair laws, they should be disobeyed.
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The quote says that laws do not deserve obedience simply because they are laws. When a law is unfair, people should refuse to follow it rather than accept injustice as unavoidable. It presents disobeying such laws as a necessary response to unfairness.
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