A Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. penned one of the most beautiful pieces of literature, in this young blogger's mind, ever written forty-five years ago today.
Written from the confines of a Birmingham, Alabama city jail cell, Dr. King poetically explored the moral imperatives for action against racial injustices perpetrated around the country, and drawing on history's lessons that these rights are demanded, not bestowed.
Unsatisfied with idly standing by from Atlanta while such injustices continued in Birmingham, Dr. King was compelled to help this community in need with the determination that "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
