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Claim: Nonviolent direct action is a necessary program to enact change in civil right.
Reason: "A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God" (196-197)
Evidence/Support: "All segregation statues are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality" (202-203).
Warrant: Hence segregation is not only politically, economically and sociologically unsound, it is morally wrong and sinful" (208-210).
Counterclaim: "An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself" (217-219).
Concession: "Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up that state's segregation laws was democratically elected?"(224-226).
Rebuttal: "But such an ordinance becomes unjust when it is used to maintain segregation and to deny citizens the First-Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and protest"(235-237).
Urge to accept/Call to action: "I hope you are able to see the distinction I am trying to point out" (238-239). :)

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Claim: Nonviolent direct action is a necessary program to enact change in civil rights.
Reason: "We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntary given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed"(King 137-139).
Evidence/Support: "For years now  I have heard the word 'Wait!' It rings in the ear of every Negro familiarity. This 'Wait' has almost always meant 'Never'" (King 141-143).
Warrant: "When you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro... never quite knowing what to expect next... then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait" (King 174-179).
Counterclaim: "You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws" (King 183-184).
Concession: "This is certainly a legitimate concern" (King 184)
Rebuttal: "Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws" (King 192-193).
Urge to accept/Call to action: "Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty" (King 623-628)

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Claim: Nonviolent direct action is a necessary program to enact change in civil rights.
Reason: "The purpose of our direct-action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation" (King 120-122).
Evidence/Support: "Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue rather than dialogue" (King 123-124).
Warrant: "Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily" (132-135)
Counterclaim: "One of the basic points in your statement is that the action that I my associates have taken in Birmingham is untimely" (125-126)
Concession: "Some have asked why didn't you give the new city administration time to act?" (127-128)

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Claim: Nonviolent direct action is a necessary program to enact change in civil rights.
Reason: "Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds." (King 41-43)
Evidence/Support: "But such an ordinance becomes unjust when it is used to maintain segregation and too deny citizens the First-Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and protest."(King 235-237)
Warrant:"I hope you are able to make the distinctions I am trying to point out. In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist."(King 238-240)
Counter Claim: " It was practiced superbly by the early Christians, who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks rather than submit to certain unjust laws of the Roman Empire" (King 250-253)
Concession: "To a degree, academic freedom is a reality today because Socrates practiced civil disobedience."(King 253-255)

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Claim: Nonviolent direct action is a necessary program to enact change in civil rights.
Reason: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" (37-38).
Evidence/Support: "It is unfortunate that demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city's white power structure left the Negro community with no alternative" (49-52).
Warrant: "Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States"  (57-59).
Counterclaim: "Certain promises were made by the merchants--for example, to remove the stores' humiliating racial signs" (67-68)
Concession: "A few signs, briefly removed, returned; the others remained" (74).
Rebuttal: "The others remained. As in so many past expieriences, our hopes had been blasted, and in the shadow of deep disappointment settled upon us" (74-77).
Urge to accept/Call to action: "Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty"(623-628).

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Claim: Nonviolent direct action is a necessary program to enact change in civil rights
Reason: "But more basically,  I am in Birmingham because injustice is here" (King 27-28).
Evidence/Support:" There can be no gainsaying the fact that racial injustice engulfs this community" (King 56-57).
Warrant:  "Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city  in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known" (King 57-59).
Counterclaim: " In the course of the negotiations, certain promises were made by the merchants-- for example, two remove the stores' humiliating racial signs" (King 67-69).
Concession:" A few signs, briefly removed, returned; the other remained" (King 74-75).
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Urge to accept/ Call to action: "This is difference made legal" (King 219)

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