just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world, so am I. compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.”(Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., In a letter from Birmingham jail.) In this quote from Dr. King he believed that he was on a call from the Lord, to see to it that every race was treated equally and given freedom.In this letter that Dr. King wrote, while in the Birmingham jail he was addressing all of the people who were criticizing him about his work and ideas. He was trying to make the white people realize and understand where he was coming from, and why they were doing sit-ins, and non-violent protests. Dr. King did not always respond to all of the criticism in which he received. The majority of all the criticism came from white people who were just afraid of a powerful black man, like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a significant leader in the civil rights movement, and he worked very hard to get black people the same treatment as the white people. In this letter from Birmingham jail was just one of the many accomplishments that Dr. King achieved. ...
