Letter From Birmingham Jail

Summarize and explain the argument King makes in paragraph 46 about "means" and "ends"

Letter from Birmingham Jail

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Both the means and the ends must be the same. He argues that one cannot drop bombs on a country and hope for a peaceful ending.

Every time we drop our bombs in North Vietnam, President Johnson talks eloquently about peace. . . . But one day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. . . . In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.