種族隔離是將特定人士與其他人隔開的作法，在蒙哥馬利郡，黑人只能坐在餐廳中的某些位子，不能從事特定的工作、也不能使用公共場所中標明「白人專用」的洗手間。

當金恩在獄中時，他寫了一封信到報社、說明他觸法的原因：「我身在獄中是因為這裡的法律不平等」他寫道：「我相當贊同奧古斯都的說法，法律有不平等的地方、就等於是沒有法律的存在」。

To segregate is to separate from others. What this meant in Montgomery is that blacks could only sit in certain places in restaurants, that they could not go into certain businesses or that they could not use public rest rooms that were for "whites only."

While King was in jail, he wrote a letter to the newspaper explaining why he had broken the law. "I am here because injustice is here," he wrote. "I would agree with Saint Augustine that 'an unjust law is no law at all.'"

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