Slavery had been abolished by the time Martin Luther King Jr. had grown up, but the aftermath was still being sorted out, with him leading the charge to fix the wrongs committed against African Americans. After a peaceful protest, he was sent to Birmingham Jail, where he would write a letter. He could’ve paused to answer criticisms but he didn’t, only wrote the letter to appeal to the masses whose rights were limited and lives were under constant bereavement. This letter would apply to these masses, and in turn, call upon their humanity, morals, and ethics. MLK went on to state the reasons he was in Birmingham at all. For instance, “I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their ‘Thus saith the Lord’ far beyond the boundaries of their home towns [...] carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world, so am I,” (Martin Luther King Jr.), this quote stands to represent to the religious people whose ears would hear the letter, a holy story of carrying a sacred duty out for what …show more content…
Why sit-ins, marches, etc? Isn’t negotiation a better path?” (Martin Luther King Jr.), he would reason back that these questions are “exactly right in your call for negotiation. Indeed, this is the purpose of direction action [...] to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue,” (Martin Luther King Jr.), this series of a question and an answer goes so far as to further give the audience a reason to approve his words as he logically says in a less direct way, ‘if you won’t accept the problem, we’ll bring it to you so you have to confront it’, which is a rather logical way to go about things, all while maintaining his non-violent code of conduct he’s set for himself and his supporters, which is also called