Letter from a Birmingham Jail Essay Questions

Letter from a Birmingham Jail
  1. Do you think that King’s civil disobedience expresses the highest respect for the law, as he claims? Explain.
  2. Is King’s distinction between just and unjust laws essentially based on his religious views? Or could the distinction be made in secular terms? Explain.
  3. Why does King think that the calls by whites for civil rights activists to wait are unjustified?
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