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What are some of the examples in the letter from Birmingham Jail, Dr.King provides as to why waiting is no longer an option
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In the Letter from Birmingham Jail King gives concrete, visceral examples of the daily injustices and suffering that make “waiting” unacceptable. Key examples he cites:
- “The humiliation of having the doors of restaurants closed to you” — the everyday public segregation that insults dignity.
- Being excluded from decent jobs and cheated out of employment and decent wages (economic discrimination and poverty).
- “The vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society
- “The humiliation of having the doors of restaurants closed to you” — the everyday public segregation that insults dignity.
- Being excluded from decent jobs and cheated out of employment and decent wages (economic discrimination and poverty).
- “The vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society
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