Appreciation Of Letter From a Birmingham Jail ¨
... One of the pieces stands out as his greatest work, ¡§Letter From a Birmingham Jail¡¨; a letter written from the jail when he was arrested for his work on civil rights on April, 1963. It is a letter that King wrote to a group of clergy members who disapproved for his movement in Birmingham. The letter consists of both religious impulse and argument that persuade people to support his work for civil rights. ... In the letter from the group of clergy members, they distinguished King is an outsider. King justified himself the present in Birmingham in the second paragraph by the objections against ¡§outsiders¡¨. ... I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham¡¨(11). He continued to explain that ¡§I am in Birmingham because injustice is here¡¨(10). He also justified it by alluding to bible such as ¡§the Apostle Paul¡¨ and ¡§Paul¡¨ did the same as King by carrying the gospel to others. He continued to support his point of view by stating, ¡§Never again we can afford to live with the narrow, provincial ¡¥outside agitor¡¦ idea.