Martin Luther King Jr Symbolize In Letter From Birmingham Jail

Martin Luther King Jr, in the letter from a Birmingham Jail he addresses himself as a patriot and as a priest. He entitles himself as both, as metaphors that he is enlightening the people of 1963 and to reveal the ignorance they've done under the name of God. King writes as a, a Civil Rights Leader, an American Citizen, Clergyman, a Christian Brother, a United States Negro, and a Judeo-Christian leader. He defines himself as a man of God as well a man of the United States in such way that demonstrates his beliefs as well, as a committed member. He states “Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world, so

His biblical reference had a huge role in this letter to enlighten the people. Martin Luther King within 3 paragraph starts expressing his love for the church and how they capture everything he believes in. Then follows on to the next paragraph saying it's perfect but in Birmingham, he had hoped maybe in the church there be a difference. In the 3rd paragraph he finally states ‘I have heard numerous southern religious leaders admonish their worshipers to comply with a desegregation decision because it is the law, but I have longed to hear white ministers declare: "Follow this decree because integration is morally right and because the Negro is your brother.’” He blames that is the church fault for not enlighten its community as leaders. Dr. King writes several paragraphs within religion to finally coming into conclusion he is aware that by emphasizing religion into the religious people of the 60’s would be more