The letter from Birmigham by Martin Luther King, was written on April 16th, 1963, from the jail in Brimingham, Alabama,where he was sent as he disobeyed a ruling against demonstrations, while he was campaigning under his nonviolent resistance philosophy to segregation.
Being initially addressed to the clergymen of Christian southern churches, the letter is a thorough response to criticisms regarding his methods. Following his essence, Luther King quotes numerous people along History, mainly to support his arguments, going from Jesus himself to Socrates, St. Paul, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Aquinas that he quotes to express the message of hard resistance against what is unfair, against injustice.
On the other hand, he quotes Adolf Hitler, the KKK and the moderate white to demonstrate that the form of order and justice they conceived, might be similar in terms of stablishing an unbreakable status quo, but specially, because he wanted to demonstrate that something just because is legal, does not mean to be right. These citations have the intention to ascertain one point: one can just be passive when fighting injustice, and the nonviolent movement was completely rightful when creating a positive tension, this is, pressure on the people who refused to accept a simple premise: that all people are simply equal before justice and society,and this fight can not be postponed.
Finally,he included other relevant people from that time, among others, leaders, members of the Government and otherfigures who played a certain role in those events.
