Letter From Birmingham Jail Analysis
"Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]"
This letter is very powerful. He makes very good points about our rights. One part that stood out to me was when he spoke on just and unjust laws. He talked a lot about morality and what is really morally right and wrong pertaining to our laws. When he was speaking about unjust laws, I tried to imagine living in such a time like that. Seeing amusement parks on TV but not being able to go, being abused and taunted at school it all seems so farfetched yet it was only fifty years ago. Another one of his main points that stood out to me was when he was talking about negotiation. When I was reading it I was almost finishing his sentences. Of course negotiation is the right path but when the community …show more content…
This was one of their responsibilities to keep the order. It is so crazy knowing that people were ordered, as one of their responsibilities, to deny the rights of other human beings. It's almost gross to me that in some days, African Americans weren't even seen as human beings, just animals and property to be used for work. Sometimes I think how different things would be if we were never enslaved. It poses many questions and issues though such as, how would we have even gotten to America? If we didn't would we have modernized in the way that we did? The crazy thing about history is that every little detail counts. If one little thing didn't happen the way that it did, our world would be drastically different.
I chose this letter mostly at first glance because it looked like the easiest to read. I forgot how much I liked learning about the Civil Rights though which made this even better. The amount of courage that people like King had and what they were willing to sacrifice for the greater good, for a better America that they knew they wouldn’t see in their own lifetime, is amazing to me. King talks about a few different issues in the letter and I think where he stands on all points is
This letter is very powerful. He makes very good points about our rights. One part that stood out to me was when he spoke on just and unjust laws. He talked a lot about morality and what is really morally right and wrong pertaining to our laws. When he was speaking about unjust laws, I tried to imagine living in such a time like that. Seeing amusement parks on TV but not being able to go, being abused and taunted at school it all seems so farfetched yet it was only fifty years ago. Another one of his main points that stood out to me was when he was talking about negotiation. When I was reading it I was almost finishing his sentences. Of course negotiation is the right path but when the community …show more content…
This was one of their responsibilities to keep the order. It is so crazy knowing that people were ordered, as one of their responsibilities, to deny the rights of other human beings. It's almost gross to me that in some days, African Americans weren't even seen as human beings, just animals and property to be used for work. Sometimes I think how different things would be if we were never enslaved. It poses many questions and issues though such as, how would we have even gotten to America? If we didn't would we have modernized in the way that we did? The crazy thing about history is that every little detail counts. If one little thing didn't happen the way that it did, our world would be drastically different.
I chose this letter mostly at first glance because it looked like the easiest to read. I forgot how much I liked learning about the Civil Rights though which made this even better. The amount of courage that people like King had and what they were willing to sacrifice for the greater good, for a better America that they knew they wouldn’t see in their own lifetime, is amazing to me. King talks about a few different issues in the letter and I think where he stands on all points is