Letter From Birmingham Jail Lines 205–210: What two references or allusions in this passage were chosen to appeal to King’s audience of fellow clergymen? Why are these references well suited to King’s audience?

It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority. Segregation, to use the terminology of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber,[9] substitutes an “I-it” relationship for an “I-thou” relationship and ends up relegating persons to the status of things. Hence segregation is not only politically, economically and sociologically unsound, it is morally wrong and sinful. Paul Tillich[10] has said that sin is separation.