Martin Luther King Bio.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a powerful man with good intentions for civil right. He wrote an extensive letter to eight clergymen who condemned the timing of the civil rights movement on April 16, 1963, from a jail in Birmingham, Alabama. Even though the letter was addressed to the clergymen, the message was geared towards a larger audience, especially King’s “Christian and Jewish brothers” (King). King believes that without direct action, the rights for African Americans could never be achieved. He defends the impatience of people in the civil rights movement, upholding that without forceful demonstrations, equality will never be reached. King also upholds that human rights must take precedence over unjust laws. His language and use of classical argumentation make his case resilient and convincing.
Through his vivid descriptions, passionate tone, and expressive examples, King’s arguments evoke an emotional response in his readers. King’s use of pathos gives him the ability to inspire fellow civil rights activists, evoke empathy in white conservatives, and create compassion in the minds of the eight clergymen and the rest of his national audience. King seeks to lessen the aggression of white citizens while revitalizing the passion for nonviolent protest in the minds of African Americans. King cautions, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” (King ), and African Americans must stand up for their rights. As King describes the horrors African Americans endure on a daily basis, he attempts to evoke an empathetic response in white conservatives. He wants his readers to imagine and understand the pain and humiliation of the ill treatment that African Americans endured. King writes of vicious mobs lynching people’s mothers and fathers, policemen killing people’s brothers and sisters, a man and his wife not receiving the proper respect they deserve because of their skin color, and the notion that African Americans feel insignificant within their