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 * Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.**



from [|Letter from Birmingham City Jail]
Even though his time frame is almost a hundred years later, he is still fighting for freedom like the revolutionaries. He's fighting for freedom, not for the nation, but for his people who have been oppressed for hundreds of years. He fights for his independence using his freedom of speech that was earned during the American Revolution. The American Revolution is so distant in time, but it has so much in common in the sense that they are both fighting for their rights and freedom. Martin Luther King's battle against slavery can be paralleled to the American Revolution and the fight for freedom. King fought for what he believed in and he fought for not only himself but all African- Americans.

-"But more basically, I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. 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 am I. compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town." Martin Luther King Jr. is trying to spread the word of racial freedom. He wants every color of skin to be able to meet equally in one land known as America. He feels that he is doing no un-justice and that he is in jail for no reason. He does not complain and states that people are scared of what would happen if all races were the same.


 * Questions:**

1.In what way is Martin Luther King Jr. comparing himself to a prophet? Is this accurate?

2. How does this piece of literature fit in with the others from this section?

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