Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. effectively used pathos and logos in both his “I Have a Dream” speech and the “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” using both to further his ideas and his push for racial equality. Dr. King uses logos to appeal to the clergymen’s sense of logic in his “Letter From Birmingham Jail”. First, Dr. King uses logos to define “just and unjust laws” (17), attempting to convince the clergymen of how the actions that placed him in jail were, in fact, moral. In paragraph sixteen, Dr. King defines his idea of just and unjust laws, ”Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust” (16). He uses this description to rationalize his decision to break the law, a law he considered to be of