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9 US Letter Som Birmingham Jail CFA
4 in our own nation, the Boston Tea Party reprinted a massive act of civil disobedience.
We should never forget that everything Adolf Hider did in Germany was legal" and
everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid
and comfort a Jew in Hider's Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the
time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If todsy 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.
I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must
confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white
moderate. I have almost resched the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling
block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux
Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers
a negative pesce which is the absence of tension to a positive pesce which is the presence
of justice; who constandy says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree
with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable
for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly
advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season.
* Shallow understanding from
people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that 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. I had hoped that the
white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase
of the transition from an obnoxious negative pesce, in which the Negro passively accepted
his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the
dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action
are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is
alresdy alive. We bring it out in the open, wirely it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that
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What purpose do paragraphs 21 and 22 serve?
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They use parallelism to amplity a daim.
They develop an opposing dam.
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They add emotional appeal to the claim.