Jail Letter

“Never before have I written so long a letter…I can assure you that it would have been much shorter if I had been writing from a comfortable desk, but what else can one do when he is alone in a narrow jail cell, other than write long letters, think long thoughts and pray long prayers?”

Truth be told, I haven’t ever read a full letter of Martin Luther King’s. But I read the following Letter from a Birmingham Jail in its entirety this morning. It was eloquent, convicting, incredible. May we use the day honoring his memory to understand what he did, why he did it, and how we can continue to use our voice in our divided nation:

Letter from a Birmingham Jail