Dr. King's Letter From Birmingham Jail

rast to the then-accepted practice of using legal means to justify illegal and immoral actions, and guided the individual in holding his or herself above reproach, as the cause of the civil rights movement was above reproach.
             Physical violence in the name of peace and justice is a concept that has endured throughout the existence of civilization. Dr. King's philosophy and practice of nonviolence during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's and 1960's stood in contrast to that concept. What he sought by advocating and practicing nonviolence was a way to illustrate the righteousness of the civil rights movement itself. Peace, justice, and equality are virtues without equal. Consider
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