After peacefully protesting segregation, Martin Luther King Jr. was put in jail, where he wrote the famous open letter, Letter from Birmingham. What Luther King Jr. suggests in this letter is that everyone in on said community has a moral duty to overturn an unjust law. He also suggests that members of a society should take direct action rather than waiting for things to change “by themselves”. His letter can be seen as a call for help to outsiders of the black community’s by appealing to their sense of morality and justice rather than to their empathy and pity. However, since the people in…