These are just a few examples of unjust and just laws. Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you. Was not Amos an extremist for justiceLet justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. Was not Paul an extremist for the gospel of Jesus ChristI bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. Was not Martin Luther an extremistHere I stand; I can do none other so help me God. Was not John Bunyan an extremistI will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience. Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremistThis nation cannot survive half slave and half free. Was not Thomas Jefferson an extremistWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. So the question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be. Martin Luther King's 'Letter From Birmingham Jail' still resonates 60 years later. He takes up for his cause in Birmingham, and his belief that nonviolent direct action is the best way to make changes happen. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the segregation laws was democratically elected? Society must protect the robbed and punish the robber. All Rights Reserved. Never before have I written a letter this long (or should I say a book?). We must come to see, as federal courts have consistently affirmed, that it is immoral to urge an individual to withdraw his efforts to gain his basic constitutional rights because the quest precipitates violence. Now there is nothing wrong with an ordinance which requires a permit for a parade, but when the ordinance is used to preserve segregation and to deny citizens the First Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and peaceful protest, then it becomes unjust. - [Narrator] What we're going to read together in this video is what has become known as Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail, which he wrote from a jail cell in 1963 after he and several of his associates were arrested in Birmingham, Alabama as they nonviolently protested segregation there. This is difference made legal. [30] He was eventually able to finish the letter on a pad of paper his lawyers were allowed to leave with him. Readers Respond: 'Letter From Birmingham Jail' - The Atlantic
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