Analysis Of Martin Luther King's Letter From A Birmingham Jail

The time of 1963 was noted for intense racial unrested and civil rights demonstrations all throughout, nationwide outrage was sparked by media coverage and oil exports actings in Birmingham, Alabama, attack dogs and fire horses turned against protestors both teens and the young. Martin Luther king Jr. had been arrested and jailed during these protests when he then wrote his speech "Letter form a Birmingham Jail," advocating disobedience against unjust laws. Dozens of demonstrations took place all over the country which culminated the March on Washington, Kennedy then backed up a civil rights act and took that up until summer. Dr. Martin Luther king in the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (1963) argues that the protesting of segregation was

"In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist," having respect for the laws is one thing when they are in just, but breaking laws that should not be laws is unjust and yet the ones take the willing acceptance of the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community and it 's in justice, to show higher respect to the laws given, right or wrong. They want to community to see what is and is not fair to all races being treated different, they want to take the punishments to spread the concerns throughout of what is happened to their people among Birmingham. In a way, everyone acts of disobedience in which deserves a sense of punishment, even the Boston Tea Party itself was a massive act of civil disobedience. "We should never forget that everything Adolfo Hitler did in Germany was, "legal" and everything Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." He wants to show that what some get away with is not the right actions, and will cause even more harmful and violence actions among the races. Things need to be brought to justice, and just like a boil that can never be cured even when it is covered up must once again be opened with all its ugly and natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be once and for all exposed, with the tensions of its exposure creates, to the light of humans and the air of the nations opinions before it can come to a curing end. It is wrong for the urge of ones violence to be brought upon out of showing their own ways of wanting rights, and that things should not have to be proved by violence. They need to repent in the generation of harmful, hateful words and actions of the ones who are bad for trying to appeal the silence of the ones who are good. "Even Christians know colored people will sometime receive equal rights," as Martin reads a