That classes are cancelled and I can sleep longer.
Bad joke. Time to get down to business.
Over ther weekend, my class was assigned to read "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" written by Martin Luther King, Jr. Though I'm familiar with some of the letter from previous schooling, I had never actually read the entire letter. And it stirred up some intense emotions. His use of repetition in paragraph 13 really got to me. He builds up to this repetion by saying "Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, 'Wait" -- Wow. That still rings true today. It's so easy for people to have an opinion about topics in our society, but just easy to do absolutely nothing about those opinions or to fight for a cause. I'm guilty of it too. Thats the major message I got from this letter. Of course, King's writing is as flawless as ever. I have always loved the way he wrote. He uses such powerful language, which can be heard to convey over written text. There are many other passages that I found powerful and the entire letter is perfectly written. However paragraph 13 made me want to do something. It made me want to do more to help make civil rights equal for everyone, no matter race, gender, sexual orientation, age, etc.
'Tis all for now.
I agree one hundred and ten percent that Dr. King is a powerful writer in every way. I also admire how you were moved by reading the letter. I am also somewhat familiar with reading the letter because of a paper that I was assigned in my Political Science class last semester. I wrote a paper about how well-versed his writings and speeches were, and how passionate he was regarding to the civil rights movement. He was truly an American legend.
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