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Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.
reflective
5.0
I highly encourage everyone to revisit Letter From Birmingham Jail if they haven’t since school (or ever). We hear so much about MLK Jr in a fluffy, celebratory way, but he’s been so decontextualized. He writes/speaks so accessibly about systemic racism, the urgency for civil rights, and the calling of God to help one another.
“We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was legal' and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was 'illegal'. It was illegal' to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers.”
“We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was legal' and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was 'illegal'. It was illegal' to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers.”