context of the Civil Rights Era in the South. To explain why he is in Birmingham instead of his home in Atlanta, he acknowledges the ties he has to the area but stresses that the injustice in Alabama calls him there. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," King famously writes (King 1). King also accounts for the moral need for demonstrations to protest unfair and illegal segregation by invoking the concepts of the individual and the group. "Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily," he writes. "Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture, but as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than indiv
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