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Compare And Contrast Letter From Birmingham Jail And Civil Disobedience

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The essay “Letter From Birmingham Jail” written by Martin Luther King Jr., and “Civil disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau have much in common. They both talk about what to do under circumstances when laws are unjust. Although they do have many things in common they do also have several differences: one major one being how the time difference has an impact on the subject. Both of these essays written by two notable figures in society shed a different light on their stance in politics, and shows the reader that you can do things to fight for what you believe in. One of the main points of both of these essays was how to handle unjust laws. They go on to talk about how an unjust law is created by the majority, and is made without regard to the

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