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?
Answer
A
by describing his own experience with waiting for civil rights
B
by providing quotes from militant civil rights demonstrators
C
by explaining the racist attitudes of white politicians
D
by recalling a dream of his in which all people were equal
Explanation
King supports the claim by describing how Black Americans had been told to wait for freedom, yet continued to face injustice. He explains that waiting had not brought civil rights and that oppressed people had to demand change. This makes his own experience with the long delay for equality the best choice; the excerpt does not rely on a dream or quotes from demonstrators.
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