“The law” became a convenient tool to be used by illegal masters when black people sought to move. — Charles V. Hamilton

Law is the agent of those in political power; it is the product of those powerful enough to define right and wrong and to have that definition legitimized by “law.” This is not to say that “might makes right,” but it is to say that Might makes Law.

There can be no social order without social justice.

What the master giveth, the master can take away.