garden/Letter from Birmingham Jail.md

• an open letter.
  • by Martin Luther King.
  • #1963

  • It says that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws and to take direct action rather than waiting potentially forever for justice to come through the courts.

    • -> civil disobedience:
      • injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere
      • justice too long delayed is justice denied
      • an unjust law is no law at all
  • Led to Why We Can't Wait, a book which includes this letter and expands on it.