Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau and
Letter From Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King
Jr.
by Lillian Bonar
Essay: Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau and Letter From Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King
Jr.
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The essays, "Civil Disobedience," by Henry David Thoreau, and "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," by Martin Luther
King, Jr., incorporate the authors’ opinions of justice. Each author efficiently shows their main point, Thoreau deals
with justice as it relates to government, he asks for,”not at one no government, but at once a better
government.”(Paragraph 3). King believed,” injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." (Paragraph 4).
Each essay shows a valid argument for justice, but King's philosophy is more effective, because it has more logical
points of views.
King’s letter from a Birmingham Jail was an act of his encouragement for protest against the white’s traditions in
which were unjust. King, a leader of civil rights groups was against traditional views, King encouraged protesting
against tradition and established laws that are unjust. In his letter from Birmingham Jail King states, “Even so, I am
sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If today I lived
in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly
advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws." (Paragraph 22) the portion of that paragraph is significant
because in Hitler's Germany, a Communist country, or any situation in which injustices are occurring. King was
against the traditional views and unjust laws, which were against his fellow people and Martin Luther King Jr.
himself.
He incorporates zeitgeist which is a word that symbolizes the spirit of the age. He compares the political freedom
with his black brothers of Africa and his brown and yellow brothers of Asia, South America and the Caribbean the
United States Negro is mov...
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