Where is the Justice?
Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter "Letter from Birmingham Jail" strikes a cord with the audience because of his expert use of pathos throughout the piece. King invokes many different emotions when he uses pathos. He invokes anger, sympathy, empathy, and love to emphasize his thesis that injustice has seized the civil rights movement and therefore, he is in Birmingham City Jail. King says, "I am in Birmingham because injustice is here."
Throughout King's letter he often compares himself to biblical characters to increase the pathos of respect for his cause, the cause of truth. For example:
"Just as the eighth century prophets left their little villages and carried their thus saith the Lord' far beyond the boundaries of their home towns; and just as the Apostle Paul left his little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet and city of the Graeco-Roman world, I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my......
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