Topic > Analysis of Martin Luther King's letter from A...

"In no sense do I advocate evasion or defiance of the law, as the fanatical segregationist would do", having respect for the laws is one thing when they are just, but breaking laws that should not be laws is unjust and yet those who willingly accept the punishment of imprisonment to awaken the conscience of the community and is in justice, show greater respect to the given laws, right or wrong. They want the community to see what is and isn't fair to all races being treated differently, they want to take punishments to spread concerns about what happened to their people in Birmingham. In a sense, all acts of disobedience deserve a sense of punishment, even the Boston Tea Party itself was a massive act of civil disobedience. “We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal”. He wants to show that what some get away with are not right actions, and will also cause more harmful and violent actions between the races must be brought to justice, and just as a boil that can never be cured even when it is covered must be opened again with all its nasty and natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed once and for all, with the tensions its exposure creates, to the light of human beings and the air of nations' opinions before it can come to a healing end. impulse of one's violence be eliminated for showing one's way of wanting rights, and that things should not be demonstrated with violence They need to repent in the generation of harmful and hateful words and actions of those who are evil for seeking to appeal to the silence of. those who are good. “Even Christians know that people of color will one day receive equal rights,” as Martin reads