"Letter from Birmingham City Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr
"My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without legal and nonviolent pressure. History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and give up their unjust posture;"
Free write:
This part of the letter seemed so interesting to me. It may be a short paragraph but alone it says so much. I always seen history as mysterious and maybe unjust sometimes. For example, who says the events in history are all right? Can someone just make up certain events to make others look good while the rest are belittled? King is also right on the nonviolence point. There hasn't been any rule making in history that has been made by not using violence. There has been many events in history where the government intervened with violence or as to say using the "Big Stick" theory. Also history has been known to be dark. There has always been blood involved with certain types of groups fighting for their rights. Martin Luther King Jr, wanted to keep the peace while changing the way people treated one another. Of course he was defending more the African American people, but he was also being very general with the usage of violence. Minimal use of violence was key for him and may have changed lots of things. I just always thought history was interesting to the extent to where who is right and who is wrong when telling their part of the story.
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