Daily Log

Tuesday, January 11

We read more of Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," specifically the beginning (not included in our textbook) in which he addresses the criticisms of the clergymen to whom the open letter was addressed, and we compared it with Emerson's "Self-Reliance," especially the two pieces' references to Socrates and Jesus as types of heroic individuals condemned in their own time but revered by people of later ages.

We discussed in this connection a quotation from a Mignon McLaughlin:
"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."