In Martian Luther King Jr. “ Letter From the Birmingham Jail” he responds to clergy mean that criticized his actions. Dr. King was one of the top leaders of the civil rights movement. He organized many peaceful protest and sit-ins. They were always broken up by police and not peaceful done. Most participants unable to get away when the police started breaking up the protest got arrested for expressing their freedom of speech.
In the intro of the letter Dr. King begins to answer the clergymen of why he didn’t wait for the city administrators to act (King;par 1;pg79). The clergymen were hoping that Dr. King would wait for the city officials to make a change to the segregation laws down in Birmingham. He writes “through painful experience that …show more content…
In this passage Dr. King quotes St. Augustine. This quote is a powerful quote in his letter. The quote is “an unjust law is not a law at all.” (King;par1;pg80) Before Dr. King mentions this quote he talks about choosing which law to follow and what law not to follow. A law is only lawful as long as it is morally right. For a law to be moral there must be some guidelines to what is justified as morally right. A way for justifying by what is morally right is religion. Religion is a good example of deciding if a law is morally right or lawful because each religion has it owns set of moral in which they see is the proper/peaceful way to serve their god or deity. An unjust law is usually a law that has one benefactor to it or double standard. An example of a current law to this day is unjust is the outlaw of marijuana. Marijuana is not a harmful drug at all compared to all the other drugs around like alcohol, tobacco, meth and heroin; the only harmful thing about marijuana is getting arrested for it. The people who benefit from marijuana being illegal are the jailers and those who have constructed the prisons to house these innocent people. The benefits that they receive from the prison is the profits from use of space. Segregation was like this justness today. The benefactors where the white moderates that did not care to see anything wrong with segregation or even those who enforced it. They were not affected by segregation there was no privilege taken away from or hardship other than some families dealing with poverty. Whereas you had African Americans and other minorities with a majority of their privileges treated unjustly where voting and proper
In the intro of the letter Dr. King begins to answer the clergymen of why he didn’t wait for the city administrators to act (King;par 1;pg79). The clergymen were hoping that Dr. King would wait for the city officials to make a change to the segregation laws down in Birmingham. He writes “through painful experience that …show more content…
In this passage Dr. King quotes St. Augustine. This quote is a powerful quote in his letter. The quote is “an unjust law is not a law at all.” (King;par1;pg80) Before Dr. King mentions this quote he talks about choosing which law to follow and what law not to follow. A law is only lawful as long as it is morally right. For a law to be moral there must be some guidelines to what is justified as morally right. A way for justifying by what is morally right is religion. Religion is a good example of deciding if a law is morally right or lawful because each religion has it owns set of moral in which they see is the proper/peaceful way to serve their god or deity. An unjust law is usually a law that has one benefactor to it or double standard. An example of a current law to this day is unjust is the outlaw of marijuana. Marijuana is not a harmful drug at all compared to all the other drugs around like alcohol, tobacco, meth and heroin; the only harmful thing about marijuana is getting arrested for it. The people who benefit from marijuana being illegal are the jailers and those who have constructed the prisons to house these innocent people. The benefits that they receive from the prison is the profits from use of space. Segregation was like this justness today. The benefactors where the white moderates that did not care to see anything wrong with segregation or even those who enforced it. They were not affected by segregation there was no privilege taken away from or hardship other than some families dealing with poverty. Whereas you had African Americans and other minorities with a majority of their privileges treated unjustly where voting and proper