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    13 March 2015 The March on Washington Civil disobedience‚ according to Dr. Kings’ letter from Birmingham Jail‚ is a way of revolting against an injustice in a peaceful manner. The March on Washington for LGBT rights was a peaceful protest in 1993. It was against the widespread discrimination through policies like the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy. Many people resigned from the army due to this policy and turned to peaceful protesting. Civil disobedience has been exemplified through the LGBT movement

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    Civil Disobedience McKenzie Peterson “Civil Disobedience” and “Letter from Birmingham Jail” both want to share their thoughts and what they want to see the United States to change. They express their thought in different ways but they both get their word out the same way. They both want to fight for what they believe is right and their hope is others will fight with them. "Daddy‚ why do white people treat colored people so mean?" Martin Luther King Jr.’s son asked his father this because as

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    the constitution and every law. When citizens feel a law is unjust‚ they have two options: follow it or fight it. While the usual method of fighting it involves legal challenges or petitioning legislators‚ civil disobedience has achieved much notoriety after its famed success during the Civil Rights movement. The Framework for a Free Society describes a free society as one in which government “is constrained by the rule of law under which every individual and entity is treated equally.” A free society

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    The Letter from Birmingham Jail or Letter from Birmingham City Jail‚ is an open letter written on April 16‚ 1963‚ by Martin Luther King‚ Jr. King wrote the letter from the city jail in Birmingham‚ Alabama‚ where he was confined after being arrested for his part in the Birmingham campaign‚ a planned non-violent protest conducted by the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights and King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference against racial segregation by Birmingham’s city government and downtown

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    In the readings Civil Disobedience and the Letter From Birmingham Jail‚ by Henry David Thoreau and Dr. Martin Luther King‚ they both focus on the matter of civil disobedience and the right of which every individual person should know that is it morally right to disobey laws that are unjust‚ and should be willing to face the aftermath of consequences. They both argue that the society that we live in would be a better place and of one unity if the citizens would know the difference between the concept

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    Letter from Birmingham Jail In Martin Luther King Jr.’s "Letter from Birmingham Jail‚" He’s responding to a statement made by clergymen in Alabama about his dealings in Birmingham‚ Alabama. In this letter King uses rational ideas‚ moral values‚ and emotion to establish to the clergymen as well as the "white moderate" why civil rights should be granted to African Americans. In his letter King uses powerful literary tools that strongly match his views. He uses similes to help the audience

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    Letter from a birmingham jail and Thoreau’s essay are alike in similar ways because they both attempt to argue for rights . In the letter from birmingham jail the thing martin luther kind try to do was demonstrate that he was against segregation and racial terror. "Bombingham" was what they started to call this place because afrian americans were starting to stand up for there rights‚ Marin luther king got arrested while he was participating in a peaceful anti-segregation march. He was doing this

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    This was Martin Luther King Jr.’s decision when deciding whether or not to travel to Birmingham to preach his beliefs. In a Letter From Birmingham Jail‚ Martin Luther King Jr.‚ tries to convince the clergymen that it is necessary to go to Birmingham by appealing to their reason and emotion. Luther initially begins by trying to appeal to their sense of logic by listing multiple reasons why he must go to Birmingham. Luther states that Christ had traveled to the far corners of the Greco Roman world

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    about civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is the refusal to obey certain laws or government demands for the purpose of influencing legislation or government policy‚ characterized by the employment of such nonviolent techniques as boycotting‚ picketing‚ and nonpayment of taxes according to dictionary.com. Two authors write about civil disobedience in their pieces. Martin Luther King Jr.‚ who was a civil rights activist and minister‚ according to biography.com‚ wrote Letter to Birmingham Jail

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    Analysis: Letter from Birmingham Jail S- To state the reason Martin Luther King Jr. is in Birmingham for attempting to change segregation as social justice and his use of civil disobedience as an instrument of freedom. O- King was incarcerated for expressing his rights as a US citizen and now writes a letter to explain the injustice A- The Alabama Clergymen and U.S. Citizens P- To announce that without forceful direct action‚ equal rights and true civil rights may never be achieved S- Martin

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