Exercise 3

● Exercise 3 ●

Identify the parallel structures in the following sentences from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and explain their effect.

  1. So I, along with several members of my staff, am here because I was invited here. I am here because I have organizational ties here. (par. 2)

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    Exercise 3: Identify the parallel structures in the following sentences from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and explain their effect. - So I, along with several members of my staff, am here because I was invited here. I am here because I have organizational ties here. (par. 2)
  2. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. (par. 4)

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    Exercise 3: Identify the parallel structures in the following sentences from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and explain their effect. - We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. (par. 4)
  3. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. (par. 4)

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    Exercise 3: Identify the parallel structures in the following sentences from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and explain their effect. - Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. (par. 4)
  4. In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action. (par. 6)

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    Exercise 3: Identify the parallel structures in the following sentences from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and explain their effect. - In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action. (par. 6)
  5. 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. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal. (par. 17)

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    Exercise 3: Identify the parallel structures in the following sentences from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and explain their effect. - 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. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal. (par. 17)
  6. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.” Was not Amos an extremist for justice: “Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: “I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.” Was not Martin Luther an extremist: “Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God.” And John Bunyan: “I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.” And Abraham Lincoln: “This nation cannot survive half slave and half free.” And Thomas Jefferson: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal… .” (par. 31)

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    Exercise 3: Identify the parallel structures in the following sentences from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and explain their effect. - Was not Jesus an extremist for love: “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.” Was not Amos an extremist for justice: “Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: “I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.” Was not Martin Luther an extremist: “Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God.” And John Bunyan: “I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.” And Abraham Lincoln: “This nation cannot survive half slave and half free.” And Thomas Jefferson: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal… .” (par. 31)
  7. If I have said anything in this letter that overstates the truth and indicates an unreasonable impatience, I beg you to forgive me. If I have said anything that understates the truth and indicates my having a patience that allows me to settle for anything less than brotherhood, I beg God to forgive me. (par. 49)

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    Exercise 3: Identify the parallel structures in the following sentences from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and explain their effect. - If I have said anything in this letter that overstates the truth and indicates an unreasonable impatience, I beg you to forgive me. If I have said anything that understates the truth and indicates my having a patience that allows me to settle for anything less than brotherhood, I beg God to forgive me. (par. 49)