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Letter from Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King Jr.

Form
Form Essay
Year
Year 1963
Pages
Pages 30

Eight white Alabama clergymen published a statement calling the Birmingham demonstrations unwise and untimely, and the newspaper carrying it found its way into a solitary cell in the city jail. Martin Luther King Jr.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr.

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