Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. How does King support this claim?

King supports the claim by describing how Black people have been told to wait for freedom and civil rights, while that waiting has brought continued injustice rather than change. His own experience makes the point that freedom is not simply handed over voluntarily; oppressed people must demand it. The correct choice is D, by describing his own experience with waiting for civil rights.

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