Question

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined and nonviolent pressure from a letter from birmingham jail

Answer 1

That sounds like Martin Luther King Jr.’s idea from his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (April 16, 1963). In that letter he argues that real progress in civil rights has come only through determined, persistent nonviolent pressure and direct action — not by waiting for gradual change or relying solely on courts and polite negotiation.

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