Sentences with phrase «letters from jail»

He has been sending letters from jail to the three surviving girls, and Sarah believes that there is more to these letters than the mindless ramblings of a madman.

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Revisit King's rhetorical mastery in his «Letter From a Birmingham Jail,» if only to understand the travesty of the white evangelical embrace of Trumpism, even as this president continues to push for the building of a border wall and the banning of Muslims from entering the From a Birmingham Jail,» if only to understand the travesty of the white evangelical embrace of Trumpism, even as this president continues to push for the building of a border wall and the banning of Muslims from entering the from entering the U.S.

In his famed Letter from Birmingham Jail, Dr. King called out eight of his fellow clergy members who'd asked him to delay civil rights demonstrations in the city.

I was stopped dead in my tracks by the pop quiz» «Can you name any of his great speeches or written works without citing «I Have a Dream» or the «Letter from Birmingham Jail»?»

Bennett's list of the great books authored by such great souls, limited to the Humanities which are his immediate concern, run from Homer to Nietzsche, and from the Federalist Papers to Letter from the Birmingham Jail.

We want Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream Speech, not his letter from a Birmingham jail, where he calls out the white moderate, «who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.»

I felt the Lord nudge me to read Martin Luther King's Letter from the Birmingham Jail.

MLK Jr's «Letter From A Birmingham Jail» immediately springs to mind.

In his «Letter from Birmingham Jail,» King spoke to the white clergy of that city, but also to the nation and to the world.

(«Letter from Birmingham Jail,» Christian Century, LXXX (June 12, 1963), 772.)

People in schools and churches across the country will pay homage to Martin Luther King Jr. today, and many will read «Letter From The Birmingham Jail,» which is right and good.

These leaders may imagine that their calls for «disruption,» of the sort Saul Alinsky described in Rules for Radicals, stand in continuity with King's Letter from Birmingham Jail.

Him saying in his letter from a Birmingham jail that they were right to talk about negotiation and that direct action was the means to achieving it!

Read his Letter from Birmingham Jail wherein he explains why he did the things he did.

In his Letter from Birmingham Jail, he quoted his namesake Martin Luther, the great reformer saying, «Here I stand.

It was a provocation to which King decided to respond, and beginning with small scraps of paper he composed Letter from Birmingham Jail.

Mike Huckabee closed his keynote on the «curse» of «judicial supremacy» with an extended quotation from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham City Jail.

I remember reading his letter from a Birmingham jail where if I remember correctly he talked of the church being under God's judgement and losing its relevance if it is does not recover the authenticity and the sacrificial spirit of the first century church.

Was Martin Luther King Jr. «sowing disunity» when he wrote his powerful, piercing letter to fellow clergy from the Birmingham Jail?

In his letter from Birmingham Jail to white clergy, he resolved that he would, neither hate them nor wait for them, but would continue to test them and oppose them nonviolently.

«Letter from a Birmingham Jail» was written 55 years ago after Dr. King was arrested during a campaign of coordinated marches and sit - ins in Birmingham, Alabama.

She rooted the argument in Dr. King's «A Letter From a Birmingham Jail.»

-- Martin Luther King, Jr, Letter from a Birmingham Jail.

Frank E. Merriweather, Jr., Branch Library — Letter from Birmingham Jail Readings (Tues., April 16), Tell Me A Story (Sat., April 20)

Armor Correctional Health Services said in a letter Wednesday to Nassau Comptroller George Maragos it would withdraw from the jail shortly — despite a contract that ends in May — if the county continues to refuse to pay its July and August bills.

In a letter sent to city officials last week, the agency, the State Commission of Correction, ordered a halt to all inmate transfers from county jails outside the five boroughs.

Pan & Scan - only DVDs from other branches of Disney home video include Three Men and a Little Lady, Taking Care of Business, Can't Buy Me Love, The Scarlet Letter, Ernest Goes to Jail, and Ernest Scared Stupid.

I feel now, as I did then, that it is our responsibility as engages citizens to expect now - President Barack Obama to live up to the promises that made him an appealing candidate... As Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmngham Jail reminds us, «Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes from the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation.»

My suggestion: read «letter from the Birmingham jail,» then make kids write an essay about it — or else!

At the end of the unit, I ask students to write an essay connecting King's «Letter from a Birmingham Jail» and Malcolm X's «Ballot or the Bullet» speech with quotes from Professor X and Magneto.

«Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance (e.g., the Gettysburg Address, King's «Letter from Birmingham Jail»), including how they address related themes and concepts.»)

In his letter from the Birmingham Jail [11], Martin Luther King wrote, «I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of tension which is necessary for growth.

King, M.L., Letter from the Birmingham Jail, in Nonviolence in Theory and Practice, R.L. Holmes, Editor.

They cover such topics as The Montgomery Bus Boycott and Kings Letter from a Birmingham Jail.

It's the difference between reading «Letter from Birmingham Jail» and reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Ninth and 10th graders might dissect Patrick Henry's «Speech to the Second Virginia Convention» and Ray Bradbury's «Fahrenheit 451,» while 11th and 12th graders might be expected to analyze Abraham Lincoln's «Gettysburg Address» and Martin Luther King Jr.'s «Letter from a Birmingham Jail.»

It was Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail — one of the most powerful and moving pieces of writing I have ever read.

For example, David Coleman filmed a model lesson of how middle school teachers should teach Martin Luther King's «Letter from Birmingham Jail» and never once mentioned the word «race».

The lesson is for a 7th grade class; the topic is Martin Luther King's «Letter from Birmingham Jail».

This year, in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King's «Letter from a Birmingham Jail,» we will explore actions that create stress — actions that foster such a tension that the people who scorn us will have to listen and will have to negotiate.»

Now, we're learning about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and how he was able to use rhetorical devices in his Letter from the Birmingham Jail.

Dr. King «explained in his powerful Letter from Birmingham Jail why the civil rights movement could not wait,» said Duncan.

Newkirk cites Martin Luther King, Jr., who stated in his «Letter from a Birmingham Jail» that it is never «untimely» in a democracy to scrutinize policies.

Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation.

While many gravitate toward Martin Luther King, Jr's «I Have a Dream» speech in order to highlight his hopes, his «Letter From a Birmingham Jail» feels more applicable to the way things are right now, especially in light of the incoming U.S. Presidential administration.

Standout items include a section of the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter (different from the Smithsonian's) where black college students staged the first protest and a bronze casting of the Birmingham jail cell door where King penned his «Letter from a Birmingham Jail.&rajail cell door where King penned his «Letter from a Birmingham Jail.&raJail.»

But when I attended a seminar last summer to catch up on seminal readings I'd never had time for, from Aristotle's «Politics» to Martin Luther King's «Letter from Birmingham City Jail,» the discussion of King's efforts and the resulting social changes made it clear that context — even technology — mattered as much as message.

And to demonstrate the potential of adding visuals to a written document, Mike «perform [s] a rhetorical analysis of the verbal topics of invention and tropes of style in the text» of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s «Letter from Birmingham Jail.»

Free Keene has posted a letter from recently convicted marijuana activist Rich Paul sent from jail.

Martin Luther King Jr's famous «Letter from Birmingham Jail» espoused principles that built on Gandhi and Thoreau's conception of civil resistance as a mechanism to achieve true justice (King Jr., Martin Luther, «Letter from Birmingham Jail» (August 1963)[MLK]-RRB-.