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Justice In Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter From Birmingham Jail

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Fred Cadet
ENG 101: 077
Composition I
Professor Perrotta
28 February 2015

Justice
What is justice? This may seem like a simple question to answer but for many in today’s society it is not. It is a word to every person that has a different meaning. Although justice has large variety of meanings it can be defined by, it is loosely defined as “the principle of fairness and the ideal or moral equity” It is at the center of every debate, involving our criminal justice, because it has many definitions. While the definitions are numerous and complex, what justice means to me if that if you think that something isn’t fair, then try changing it.
Justice is about being fair and treating others as equals not divided.
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While researching texts about this topic, I found two that best represents the true meaning of justice to me, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and the television show Justice League which is an American superhero animated television series which ran from 2001 to …show more content…

He expressed that while he knows that through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed. When hearing the word “Wait!” it rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. That this “Wait” has almost always meant “Never”(Letter from Birmingham Jail, paragraph 13). He expresses that “Its easy for those who have never faced segregation to say “Wait”, but they would be singing a different tune if they had to witness vicious mobs hang their mothers and fathers at will and drown their sisters and brothers at a whim; when faced with hate-filled policemen curse, kick, and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society”(Letter from Birmingham jail”, Paragraph 14). MLK wrote this letter in the hopes of reaching out this his brothers and the white clergyman to one day end the constant racial prejudice to pass away and from the intense feelings of misunderstanding will be lifted from their fear-induced communities and in the future bring about a world of

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