Letter From A Birmingham Jail

Here’s a link to Martin Luther King’s "Letter From A Birmingham Jail.". Those of you who decide to click on this link and spend 20-30 minutes of your extended weekend reading his letter will not be disappointed, particularly if you love justice and moral clarity.

I try to distribute Dr. King’s letter each year during his holiday because it inspires me, and because it reminds me of how much we (Americans - of all races) owe this man. If you doubt that our nation is deeply indebted to Dr. King, read his letter and then consider a what it would have been like for our country to encounter a civil rights movement divorced from Dr. King’s insistence on non-violent means.

I'm just guessing, but if Dr. King (and the many others who stood with him) had not insisted on non-violence, it would have taken this country a lot longer than 40 years to elect a multi-racial president.

Joe H.