The 50 th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL”

1. The 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s“LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL”

2. LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

3. LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL “Why direct action?... To create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.”

4. LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

5. LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL “Justice too long delayed is justice denied.”

6. LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL “When you suddenly find your…speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park…and see ominous cloud of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky…”

7. LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL “Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.”

8. LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL “Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.”

9. LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL “We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.”

10. LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL “Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation.”

11. LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL “Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.”

12. LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL “We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.”

13. LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL