Martin Luther King Jr Criticize In Letter From Birmingham Jail

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Despite hateful and thrashing detestation from the majoral white citizens and leaders Martin Luther King Jr. perseveres and gets his point across of how to, properly break the law. MLK constantly advocates for African-American rights and holds a belief that everyone deserves civil justice no matter if you were, black,white,chinese red, purple, or blue. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” The quotation discusses the epitome of a society that King is advocating for and a society that will accept the ideas of many while united as one. In addition to his attack on injustice King uses his “Letter From Birmingham Jail” to criticize

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