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Letter Written By MLK From Birmingham City Jail, Alabama. My Dear Fellow
Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail ...
MLK. ... I have just received a letter from a white brother in Texas. ... Harry Golden, James
McBride Dabbs, Ann Braden and Sarah Patton Boyle---have written about our ...
... In the letter written by MLK from Birmingham, and the ... Although MLK's letter was
addressed as a reply to ... MLK begins to explain how Birmingham quite possibly ...
... MLK and Thoreau When encountering injustice and treated less than a ... Never before
have I written so long a letter. ... King also uses ethical appeal in his letter. ...
... he could only hope that what he had written will be seen ... If I have said anything
in this letter that overstates ... (MLK) was a born leader but more importantly an ...
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My Dear Fellow Clergymen:
While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statements in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.
I think I should indicate why I am here In Birmingham, since you have been influenced by the view which argues against "outsiders coming in." I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every southern state, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. We have some eighty-five affiliated organizations across the South, and one of them is the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. Frequently we share staff, educational and financial resources with our affiliates. Several months ago the affiliate here in Birmingham asked us to be on call to engage in a nonviolent direct-action program if such were deemed necessary. We readily consented, and when the hour came we lived up to our promise. So I, along with several members of my staff, am here because I was invited here I am here because I have organizational ties here.
But more basically, 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, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town....
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