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

Letter from the Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King Jr.

Hardcover | Pages: 35 pages

Rating: 4.68 | 4332 Users | 374 Reviews

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

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The only appropriate way to honor this masterpiece of moral strength and clarity, mind-altering eloquence, reason and crystal clear definition of the differences between justice and injustice is to quote the mighty Christopher Hitchens himself: " It is quite impossible...to read his sermons or watch recordings of his speeches without profound emotion of the sort that can sometimes bring genuine tears. Dr. Kings Letter from Birmingham Jail, written in response to a group of white Christian

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

an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere

The perfect day to read Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's address to the eight white clergymen who called his activities in Birmingham "unwise & untimely. Dr. King has an extraordinary ability with words be they in speaking or writing. This impassioned response is one I will not forget. I do find it terribly sad that we are still have so far to go. While I found myself writing down many of his words, one caught my eye "Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than

I've had a very slow start to 2020, and something short and powerful like this was just what I needed to get my dragging feet to start moving. The injustices of MLK's time are still alive and well today, but I have to believe that more people than ever before want better for everybody. White moderates still exist, but more people than ever before are not afraid to challenge the comfort of white moderates (though here we must tread lightly; you can't attack people and expect their sympathy). More

I don't normally read something based on the day it is, but today's page of my new book-a-day calendar was for Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation and my calendar says the letter "would take its place among works by Thoreau and Lincoln as a signpost of moral argument". Well, then and there I decided I needed to read it. The letter holds many, many quotable lines (and, sadly, relevance for today) but instead of taking

What can I say that hasn't been said already about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a person, his writings, and his speeches? It's all been said really.. Still I feel like I can add a little too this review.Dr. King Jr. is a man that inspires me, and has ever since I was a kid, for his eloquence, pride in his people and heritage, and fight for what he believed in. When I've gone through tough times, including sexism and racism, I've looked to him for inspiration to not lash out with violence but