He said that God had created all races of one blood and, thus, all men of all races were brothers.įor Dr. King called for an end to racial injustice, not by appealing to current laws or even to the will of the majority (both of those, at the time, were against him!), but to a Higher Law. But “Letter From Birmingham Jail” reminds us that this wasn’t Dr. King’s letter confronted inaction and passivity with the authority of a biblical worldview, particularly one shaped by the gospel. And four days later, having gotten some paper from his lawyer, he finished and sent the now famous “Letter From Birmingham Jail.”ĭr. King immediately began composing a response in the margins of the newspaper itself. But we are convinced that these demonstrations are unwise and untimely.”ĭr. They wrote, “We recognize the natural impatience of people who feel that their hopes are slow in being realized. King (and others) to abandon their nonviolent protests in the fight for racial reconciliation. sat in a small, solitary jail cell in Birmingham, reading a newspaper article written by several white clergymen.
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