him he sat at that beaten desk and wrote one of the most extraordinary and intellectual letters to the clergymen who challenged his beliefs. In Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” King showed his intelligence by the use of quotes from memorization, through the use of his phenomenal vocabulary, and through his sentence structure. His intelligence is perspicuous . In one of Martin Luther King’s paragraphs in his letter he quotes many well known people such as Jesus, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln…
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