How_Martin_Luther_King_Was_Influenced_By_Plato

How Martin Luther King Was Influenced By Plato Finding something or someone that influences you is hard. But in Martin Luther King case, it seemed a breeze. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” was influenced by Plato’s “The Myth of the Cave” in so many ways. Plato talks about living in an underground den, chained against the walls, couldn’t do anything about it. Some being there since childhood. Letter From Birmingham Jail basically the same aspect, it talks about being arrested and thrown in jail for something they believed in, especially Dr. Martin Luther King. He was arrested for believing in non-segregation, freedom of speech, and blacks/whites having the same rights. Like Plato, Martin Luther King talks about using your knowledge as good or evil. But in King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, people were using what they knew in an evil way. They thought since they had more rights, they could do what ever they wanted, to whom ever they wanted to. Dr. King was fighting for that, he thought there were creative injustice laws. He states in Letter from Birmingham Jail that: “There are just and unjust laws, a unjust law is a code that a majority inflicts on king, luther, martin, just, jail, unjust, people, letter, birmingham, about, talks, dr, believed, way, wanted, thought, minority, laws, law, know, king’s, whom, time, states, same, right, plato, name, man, code, arrested, plato, white, using, true