Letter from Birmingham Jail

Diego E. Ruiz Ruperto

Professor Cynthia Pittmann

INGL 3103

6 February 2018

Briningham

• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere. If you lived in Atlanta, you couldn't ignore what was happening in Briningham because sooner or later, those situations would affect you. If somebody's rights were being violated in a town next yours, that affects you directly because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice where you live.
• Outsiders coming in. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider. Some people viewed Martin Luther King as an outsider coming from another town to theirs to make changes but that freedom is essential to the wellbeing of the states.
• Just and unjust laws. Remembering that everything that Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal”. It was illegal to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany. A law can be just in its face and unjust in its application. This was the case with the african-american community in the United States when they were given the “right to vote”. The law said that they could vote like any other white citizen but when the african-american people went to vote, they were required many more requirements than those that were asked to white people.

Work cited

Pittmann, Cynthia. Class Assignment. Martin Luther King Jr: Letter from Birmingham Jail.

UPRRP January 2018