1. Martin luther king/The purpose of language
... so extreme and so accepted among the clergymen that they have devoted their entire lives to this way of living. So when the clergymen "speak of our [King's] action in Birmingham as extreme"(6) they will now have to consider that an extreme action is not necessarily a bad or evil thing. ... To reinforce that past great men have been extremists, King gives various quotes of people that the clergymen most likely respect, such as the American president/patriot Abraham Lincoln: " This nation cannot survive half slave and half free ... of the condition that the city of Birmingham is in (half ...
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