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Monday, Dec 15, 2025

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.


The Setonian
Opinion

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

This letter, dated April 16, 1963, is being published in honor of Dr. King. It has been abridged for print. [...] I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their “thus saith the Lord” far beyond the boundaries of ...

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