Letter From Birmingham Jail Analysis

Justice: The Cure for Racism Our world today is much different from the world Martin Luther King Jr. experienced. He had to go through some things that fortunately people my age will never have to face. Today we do not fight for the right to drink at certain water fountains nor do we have assigned seats on city buses. People do not worry about the Ku Klux Klan burning down their churches and killing their kids simply because they hate the color of that person’s skin. It is so sad to see how superficial those people were before, during, and after Martin Luther King’s impact on segregation. He states in the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” that time is valuable, complacency is just as bad as hatred, and sometimes extremism is a good thing.
He tells about how a white friend of his from Texas said, “All Christians know that the colored people will receive equal rights eventually, but it is possible that you are in too great a religious hurry.” His friend goes on to explain how long it took Christianity to come about and how the teachings of Jesus had to take time to come to earth. King found these statements to be ridiculous and so do I. People think if they just sit around waiting for things to happen it will all work out fine in the end. Time can either war for us or against us; it all depends on how wisely we use it. Martin Luther King Jr. said that “human progress never rolls on wheels of inevitability.” This statement is so true; nothing would have ever been done about civil rights if King had not been the start of