An Analysis Of Dr. Martin Luther King's Letter From A Birmingham Jail

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Long, long ago throughout Europe and parts of Asia, Communism was thought to be an excellent way of life. Maybe it was too much of a Utopian thought to actually follow through with. In Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” he says, “If I lived in a *Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are *suppressed, I believe I would openly *advocate *disobeying these anti-religious laws.” I strongly believe that Doctor King not only brought up Communism because of Hitler’s Germany in the nineteen forties, but also because Communism was thought up to be as every single person were to be equal. There would be no such thing as social classes, or rich and poor, or black or white; everyone would be equal.…show more content…
King said fifty years ago, it was thought as unjust, and incorrect; no one thought his ideas were politically or morally correct. Now today, fifty years later, we look back on his words and some of us may think, “Wow, Dr. King was completely right,” and Lord, knows he may have been right, and if people actually listened to him, our country may be I a totally different place. If we look back and think that Dr. King could have been right with his very own idea, which’s not to say that Communism could have turned out right for our country? Even if it didn’t work decades ago in Europe or even here in America, what’s not to say let’s try it in this day and age and see if it works. Even if it doesn’t work, at least we can say we
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