In attempt, Martin Luther King Jr. compares and contrasts himself with well-known to how they invoke to his motives and actions at Birmingham. King leaves his home to travel to other places “just as the Apostle Paul, …[he] respond[ed] to the Macedonian call for aid” (357) to which he enters Birmingham to bring focus on segregation in the city. King was “just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create tension in the mind” (359) therefore King took direct action to give commotion toward the issue to get the attention needed for the focus to be on. He brings the attention toward the march, he attended the march and had walked side by side with other protestors to end up being arrested. King’s attempt to evoke the focus of the audience onto
