Logic and Emotion

The Letter from Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King used reason and feeling to appeal black and white clergymen.
Dr. King used logos, a quality that appeals to a one?s logic or reason, to persuade the clergymen by pointing out that:
§ He was in Birmingham, Alabama because he was invited and because injustice was in the city, which needed to be terminated. (pgs. 97-98)
§ In his opinion, there were two types of laws, just and unjust. The unjust laws in Birmingham were the segregation laws because they are ?morally wrong and sinful.? (pgs. 101-102)
§ All of the immoral acts that Hitler carried out were considered legal and these were unjust laws. Supporting the victims of these legal actions were against the law, and these laws were also unjust. (pg. 103)
§ It is unreasonable to reprimand Negroes for the peaceful prote...