Summary Of Martian Luther King Letter From Birmingham Jail

“You speak of our activity in Birmingham as extreme. At first I was rather disappointed that fellow clergymen would see my nonviolent efforts as those of an extremist.”-Martian Luther King Letter from Birmingham Jail. MLK uses the Pathos of abandonment to address those who have been abandoned by those they trust by using language that confronts the clergymen. This language comes from the environment of truthfulness to provide trust to address the problem of distrust. Martian Luther King wants to address to his audience that even though the church is to be the panicle of the community that looks to create peace amongst the people. Although instead they turned their backs on Martian Luther King, saying his protest was not right, saying he was an extremist such as those who were bad and wicked like Hitler, terrorist, and other organizations that used their cause to do unjust and unlawful things. Yet, he was not those things he used non aggression, he is not attacking back instead he is promoting that the people should only use their words to fight back the violence that it directed to them. In a sense he is saying that the pen is mightier than the sword or in his case the voice is mightier than the violence. Which in this case yes it is mightier and just, those using violence towards their fellow country men only sparks more dangerous conflicts.