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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the numerous notable influential speakers wrote a life changing letter after being imprisoned by the police for peacefully marching in protest rights. When being placed in the local jail Dr. King received a letter from clergymen questioning his aspirations and timings for being in Birmingham. In a response…

In America, a woman is raped every two minutes. The act of coercively forcing someone into having sexual intercourse against their will, reaches far beyond the “pleasure” of sex, but rather into the feeling of dominance and supremacy. Rape has existed as a never-ending issue in which a contingent of victims have feared talking about….

Presents himself as an educated and credible man and defends his stance on the issue of non-violent protesting. He addresses the ideas brought forward in an open letter wrote up by a group of several white clergymen who felt as if African Americans should wait on the judicial system to correct this injustice error, as…

Martin Luther King Jr’s famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, has set a place in history long ago, in April of 1963. Many would say this is a lasting and important text for today’s American society. This could be because of the way it was written, or by the statements that were used in this text,…

Opposite Forces: Freedom for Violence versus Violence for Freedom In the public statement “A Call to Unity”, the Alabama clergymen criticize the civil activists’ goals to stop segregation and racial superiority because the organization is disobeying the protocols that are enforced in Alabama, Birmingham. Specifically, the clergymen target Martin Luther King Jr. as he is…

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Martin Luther King Jr. has become one of history’s biggest civil rights activists who has completely changed the world we currently live in today. In his Letter from Birmingham Jail, King talks about the difference between moral and immoral laws. King tries to explain that justice has a sense of morality by saying, “one has…

Civil disobedience was largely popularized by figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1950s Civil Rights Movement. Inherently nonviolent, it aims to fight injustice and ultimately effect societal change. Because it is a widely debated means of action, I will present a framework under which it can be morally justified, drawing on King’s “Letter…

In the “Letter From Birmingham Jail”, Martin Luther King Jr. addresses many problems about prejudice, He talks about what it felt like to be in the African American minority, and in the well-written letter he explains things like unjust laws, the impact -or lack thereof- that the white church had on racism at the time,…

In “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr. writes about how segregated the U.S. is and how it affects the people that are “inferior” to the white folks. He goes through the ways he is upset about police brutality, the way it is justified to break the law when it is unjust, and the…