Martin Luther King Jr. was a Civil right promoter against injustices and racism against the blacks. The letter is in response to white clergymen written article in a newspaper.
<em>He believed that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and to take direct action rather than waiting potentially forever for justice to come through the courts.</em>
Martin Luther King was arrested and jailed in April 1963 after he led a group of black protesters who were against white segregation and who wanted a boycott of white stores during the Easter period. While in the Birmingham jail, he wrote a letter that was directed to the clergymen who described his activities as untimely and unwise. He felt they deserved a response because he thought they were men of genuine goodwill.
The 7000 words letter was a call for 'constructive, non-violent tensions' that would lead to the end of unjust laws that did not favor everyone. This letter was useful in setting the pace for a renewed civil rights movement.
Answer: People like Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao shifted more to the left and were among the leading founders of the Communist Party of China in 1921, whilst other intellectuals, such as the anarchist writer and agitator, Ba Jin also took part in the movement.
