In the Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King wrote a letter in response to religious leaders condemning his activism. In the letter King says that it is just to break an unjust law, bringing up historic examples like Martin Luther and Socrates... #MLKDay https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf …

"You asserted that our [peaceful] actions, must be condemned because they precipitate violence. But can this assertion be logically made? Isn't this like condemning Socrates because his.. commitment to truth precipitated the misguided popular mind to make him drink hemlock?"

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