Answer:
While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.
Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application. For instance, I have been arrested on a charge of parading without a permit. Now, there is nothing wrong in having an ordinance which requires a permit for a parade. But such an ordinance becomes unjust when it is used to maintain segregation and to deny citizens the First-Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and protest.
Letter from Birmingham Jail, Marthin Luther King Jr.
Explanation:
Thomas Jefferson, having been a big fan of the Enlightenment philosopher John Locke, talks specifically about how when a government becomes tyrannical, it is within the rights of the people to replace that government.
Reads like a martin luther king or like minded speaker going for freedom of speech and struggle for justice (against the apartheid that Rosa Parks also stood - or in her case literally sat - for). "Mississippi Burning" is a very powerful film.
