The article, Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr, discusses the nonviolent resistance to racism. He uses ethos and pathos throughout his argument to the clergymen to announce the point of how he believe that him going to Birmingham would benefit the movement. The author goes in detail to talk about the movement of standing up for their rights, going on to address a more general audience of both whites and Africans, to say that he felt as if the racism should not be focused on and that it was a violence of the amendment in the constitution, specially the 4th amendment. He says “...but I must confess that I am not afraid of the word ‘tension’”, which shows, as he later goes on to talk about, how he believes that nonviolence
