Letter from a Birmingham Jail

How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law... An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.

• Declaration of Independence

• Federalist #10

• Federalist #78

• Letter from Birmingham Jail

"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself..."

• Declaration of Independence

• Brutus #1

• Federalist #51

• Letter from Birmingham jail

Which of the foundational documents said citizens must agitate against unjust laws in order to spawn social and political change

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Prohsaka is an old weak man who smells

• Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Patience will not lead to social and political change. It was one hundred years after the Civil War, and African Americans still did not political or social equality is an idea found within

• The Constitution

• The Articles of Confederation

• Letter from a Birmingham Jail Cell

• Federalist 70

You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.

• Federalist No. 78

• Federalist No. 70

• Letter from Birmingham Jail

• Brutus No. 1

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation.

• Brutus No. 1

• Federalist No. 10

• The Declaration of Independence

• Letter from Birmingham Jail

What is the main purpose of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail'?

• To justify his actions and those of the civil rights movement

• To criticize the federal government

• To propose new legislation

• To support segregation

In 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail', Martin Luther King Jr. argues that individuals have a moral responsibility to do what?

• Obey all laws

• Support the government

• Break unjust laws

• Ignore social issues

Which rhetorical strategy is predominantly used by Martin Luther King Jr. in 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail'?

• Pathos

• Logos

• Ethos

• All of the above

What historical context prompted Martin Luther King Jr. to write 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail'?

• The March on Washington

• The Montgomery Bus Boycott

• The Birmingham Campaign

• The Selma to Montgomery marches