Letter From Birmingham Jail

PARAGRAPH 11- IDENTIFY PATHOS (ADD THE EVIDENCE) PLZZ HELP

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have never yet engaged in a direct-action movement that was ''well timed'' acording to the timetable of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word ''wait.'' It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This ''wait'' has almost always meant ''never.'' It has been a tranquilizing thalidomide, relieving the emotional stress for a moment, only to give birth to an ill-formed infant of frustration. We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that ''justice too long delayed is justice denied.'' We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our God-given and constitutional rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creepp at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter I guess it is easy for those who have never fel the stinging darts of segregation to say ''wait''. But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policeman curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she cannot go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky, and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son..............................

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King evokes the pathos of black suffering at the hands of white people bent on inflicting the most pain on their black brothers and sisters. He laments about the tragedy of, "vicious mobs (that) lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policeman curse..." This is meant to arouse pathos in readers of all colors and religions.