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While not exactly book length, I'm glad I listened to the audio recording of this powerful letter written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. while he sat in jail for leading a non-violent (and also non-licensed) demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama. Here he so eloquently lays out the case against segregation and explains why the lack of negotiations has led to these peaceful protests and how the aim is to bring about equally peaceful negotiations, not violence. He is firm in his convictions and when he lays out his case, it seems obvious why anyone would support integration, because it is, quite simply, the morally right thing to do. His words are universal; I kept thinking about how they could just as equally be applied to other oppressed minorities throughout time and around the world. His message of the dignity of human life is a wider message to all Christians of the value of each individual and how by judging any group as inferior we do not carry out the will of Jesus Christ to love all people.