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Jessica Hoang Ms. Duran English11 Honors 22 March 2016  Moving forward             For hundreds of years, the government has been adding, changing, and removing laws numerous times. However, the process of changing the law is not quick nor is it easy. Most of the time, change requires endless efforts of raising awareness to gain support, proposing bills, petitioning, and many more. Martin Luther King Junior was a transcendentalist who promotes the idea of large scale protest resistance to unjust laws in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” In his writing, he touched on the subject regarding the importance of one’s moral responsibility by standing up for the rights that they are entitled to when those rights are violated. The awareness that the Civil Rights Movement desperately needed at the moment was brought by Dr. King’s responding letter. Despite the fact that society is moving in the right direction with the issue of racial inequalities, it is moving backwards with