Martin Luther King uses ethos and repetition to advocate for civil disobedience. Paragraph 12 of the letter from the Burmingham jail, Martin Luther King writes “To put it in the terms of Saint Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is rooted in eternal and natural laws.” This is ethos because of the reference to Saint Aquinas. This shows that Saint Aquinas is related to the topic by proving laws unjust, therefore advocating for civil disobedience. In the letter from Burmingham jails it is obvious that repetition is used quite often.In paragraphs 8 and 14 he uses terms such as “nonviolent and peaceful”. The repetition of the phrases, nonviolent and peaceful advocate or civil disobedience to show the nonviolent protest occurring to achieve
