Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist. King includes this sentence to

King clarifies that his protest is not a rejection of law or a call to break laws indiscriminately. He is distinguishing principled resistance to unjust laws from simply evading the law, so the sentence explains the purpose and limits of his protest. The best choice is “clarify the purpose of his protest.”

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