“Letter from Birmingham Jail”

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demonstrate how immoral segregation was. That is why the universal connotation of his movement, which evolved from the bottom not for economic reasons, though for the pursuit of liberty. Extremely dispirited by the feeble tone of "A Call for Unity," Dr. King considers segregation a human abomination, worth the fight. Firstly, slavery was not abolished under the Declaration of Independence nor under the Constitution since many revolutionary leaders, who were also slaveholders, prioritized their own interest over freedom for all. Then segregation originated allowing for more humiliation of a race that had already gone through centuries of ill-treatment, as Dr. King exemplifies: "We have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God-given rights" (815).
In Birmingham, the city with the worst record for human rights violations and where police brutality against Negroes was notorious, Dr. King expresses that he cannot procrastinate his direct action plan, which ...

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We must acknowledge and honor the fact that before the assassination of President Kennedy, Kennedy was determined to abrogate segregation once and for all. In the end, it took a war and the assassination of the three greatest Americans in the fight for liberty (President Lincoln, President Kennedy, and the civil rights leader Dr. King) to efface the evil of racial discrimination in America. Only after those tragic events did justice and liberty finally arrive in the 1960s.
Since the end of the segregation period, enormous progress has been made in combating this plague. For that matter, under President Bill Clinton affirmative action was created affording more job opportunities for ...

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