Examples Of Social Injustice In Letter From Birmingham Jail

“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress,” quoted from, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This quote demonstrates how law and order are created for the purpose of establishing justice and if they fail to establish justice then we will not have civil progress. Dr. King wrote, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” to explain how social injustice has gone long enough and the time is now to receive the pursuit of happiness regardless of your skin color. In this essay, I will discuss the different perspectives when it comes to social injustice and which one of them I agree with. John C. Calhoun, Henry David Thoreau, and Martin Luther King, Jr. all had different views and resolutions between majority rule and minority rights. John C. Calhoun believed that society’s first priority is to do what they think is right and not to follow the law told by the majority. If the government is biased, society should be able to decline the law they disagree with and

King’s, purpose for “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” was a justification of civil rights procedures and a rebuking of white individuals who wanted more composure when it came to social change. He identifies and works through the issue of segregation by telling the individuals who believe it is not the time to have justice; that it is easier for them to judge so quickly when their people are not the one suffering. Throughout the letter he points out that the answer to this problem is that there is no such thing as the right time for justice and the time to act is now. One of the major concepts of the letter is that you cannot just tell anyone to wait or stop when they have been yearning for the moment to be free and treated equally. “This “Wait” has almost always meant “Never.” We must come to see, with one of our distinguished justice denied,” Dr. King