“A Letter from Birmingham Jail” and “Resistance to Civil Government” are similar and different in many ways. One similarity is that they both have the same topic of writing, which would be civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is when they don’t agree with the law and refuse to pay certain laws due to it. Both the stories show ways they disrupt the peace. In “A Letter from Birmingham Jail” written by Martin Luther King, he states that he thinks you can protest without causing violence in the crowd. In “Resistance to Civil Government” by Thoreau, he states that slavery should not exist. Both these letters use logical and emotional strategies to pull you into reading it. They explain how they feel towards the topic in which they are speaking
