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What is Martin Luther King Jr's claim in "Letter from Birmingham Jail"?

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In his "Letter from Birmingham Jail,"Martin Luther King's main claim is to promote the urgent need for and biblical soundness of nonviolent protest.
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The Letter from Birmingham Jail is is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr.

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The letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism. Martin Luther King Jr. writes 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.

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