The main idea in MLK’s Letter from Birmingham was to bring attention to the injustice they faced and that they had to liberate themselves because those in power were not going to. In both the letter and the movie, Selma, we read/saw about their strenuous “wait”. In the letter, he talks about the police he had watched brutalize, kick, curse and kill his brothers and sisters. Also, he tells about the time he watched tears come rolling down his 6-year-old daughter’s face when he told her she couldn’t go to the park. In the movie, we saw how the African Americans were attacked and targeted by the officers. In his letter, King stated, “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed”. This corresponds with why the authority are always telling the African Americans to “wait”; because they have no sense of what it is like to be in their shoes. Because those in authority were not going to give freedoms to them, King knew that they needed to empower themselves. However, he knew that violence would only cause more tension, so he believed that peaceful protesting was the way to freedom. In the middle of his letter, he talks about his disappointment with the churches. He was mislead to believe that he would have support of his fellow Christians. Before he concludes his letter, he disputes about the church. He says, “There was a time when the church was very powerful. It was during that period that the early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed.” Christians, believing in the views of the bible, see everyone as equal. Undoubtedly mislead, King believed he would have patronage from the Christians . MLK also demonstrates that injustice anywhere will devastate our country as a whole. For example, he states, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.” He argues that we need to oppose injustice everywhere because setting this authoritative example will only show others that this behavior is acceptable, jeopardizing our entire society as a whole. King, from Atlanta, was indirectly affected by the injustice in Birmingham, with the potential of it reaching him and spreading across the country.