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An Analysis Of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter From Birmingham Jail

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As a response to an unjust proposition from the Alabama clergymen, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” to persuade the people to look things from his point of view. The clergymen wrote that the protests should stop and the problem of civil rights should be attempted as a negotiation, yet they did not specify when they were going to start. King utilizes different appeals to prove that black people should have the same rights as the white people. In his letter, he utilizes logical, ethical and emotional to prove that people have the right to break any unfair laws. He uses logical to argue that not every outsider is dangerous or wants to cause any harm. When he mentions, “just as the Apostle Paul left his village of

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