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Title	:	Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Author	:	Martin Luther King Jr.
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 35 pages
Published	:	August 1st 1994 by HarperOne (first published April 16th 1963)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Politics. Classics. Writing. Essays. Philosophy

Letter from the Birmingham Jail Hardcover | Pages: 35 pages

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There is an alternate edition published under ISBN13: 9780241339466. Martin Luther King, Jr. rarely had time to answer his critics. But on April 16, 1963, he was confined to the Birmingham jail, serving a sentence for participating in civil rights demonstrations. "Alone for days in the dull monotony of a narrow jail cell," King pondered a letter that fellow clergymen had published urging him to drop his campaign of nonviolent resistance and to leave the battle for racial equality to the courts. In response, King drafted his most extensive and forceful written statement against social injustice - a remarkable essay that focused the world's attention on Birmingham and spurred the famous March on Washington. Bristling with the energy and resonance of his great speeches, Letter from the Birmingham Jail is both a compelling defense of nonviolent demonstration and a rallying cry for an end to social discrimination that is just as powerful today as it was more than twenty years ago.

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Original Title:	Letter from Birmingham Jail
ISBN:	0062509551 (ISBN13: 9780062509550)
Edition Language:	English

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How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of Harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the

This is a must read for everyone, there are so many highlights in this book but I am going to try my best to summarize the best ones.]"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.""Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.""I hope the church as a whole will meet the challenge of this decisive hour. But even if the church does not come to the aid of justice, I have no despair about the future. I have no fear about the outcome of our struggle in Birmingham,

Every bit as relevant today as it was then. I wish it hadn't taken me so long to read this--it is *so* good.This is available on Hoopla. Dion Graham's cadence does justice to the intonation of Dr. King.

This letter is so important and still reads to be so true and so relevant. I was assigned this for school (as well as on civil disobedience which I will be reading next) though I have read it before. It's also especially relevant because yesterday I marched in the women's march in Atlanta. I live in the 5th district in Atlanta and John Lewis is my congressman (my district is doing just fine,by the way. Don't believe everything you read in a tweet). He spoke at the march yesterday and told all of

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. This letter, by Martin Luther King Jr, was written when he was arrested in 1963 for leading a peaceful protest. At times, this letter read like a lengthy sermon and got pretty religious, talking about God, Jesus and the Church. While I didn't care much for the sections about the Church, overall, this letter was a very eloquently written piece of work on justice and injustice. One may well ask: How can you advocate breaking some laws and

This "Birmingham jail" letter by MLK, Jr. and the UN Declaration of Human Rights are the only two "required readings" across all sections of Global Ethics at my college. Today we can recall the now famous lines: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny." The full letter is here: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/a....I got a MLK, Jr. Award for my anti-racism work with largely "White on

Amazing and humbling, that he could write such a letter in the confines of a jail where the conditions am sure were deplorable for whites even worse for the colored.