Read the passage. I must close now. But before closing I am impelled to mention one other point in your statement that troubled me profoundly. You warmly commended the Birmingham police force for keeping
"order" and "preventing violence." I don't believe you would have so warmly commended the police force if you had seen its angry violent dogs literally biting six unarmed, nonviolent Negroes. I
don't believe you would so quickly commend the policemen If you would observe their ugly and inhuman treatment of Negroes here in the city jail; if you would watch them push and curse old
Negro women and young Negro girls; if you would see them slap and kick old Negro men and young Negro boys, if you will observe them, as they did on two occasions, refuse to give us food
because we wanted to sing our grace together. I'm sorry that I can't join you in your praise for the police department.
In his "Letter from Birmingham City Jail," Dr. King uses the phrase I don't believe ... twice. Which rhetorical device is he using?
emotion
parallelism
balance
antithesis

Parallelism.

Explanation:

Notice if the, if would/if you will.

The repetition of a similar grammatical structure is called parallelism. Dr.King uses parallelism to emphasize injustices that African Americans have suffered at the hands of the Birmingham Police Dept.

11-32. the main character in the parable, the forgiving father, whose character remains constant throughout the story, is a picture of god. in telling the story, jesus identifies himself with god in his loving attitude to the lost. the younger son symbolizes the lost (the tax collectors and sinners of that day, luke 15: 1), and the elder brother represents the self-righteous (the pharisees and teachers of the law of that day, luke 15: 2). the major theme of this parable seems not to be so much the conversion of the sinner, as in the previous two parables of luke 15, but rather the restoration of a believer into fellowship with the father. in the first two parables, the owner went out to look for what was lost (luke 15: 1-10), whereas in this story the father waits and watches eagerly for his son's return. we see a progression through the three parables from the relationship of one in a hundred (luke 15: 1-7), to one in ten (luke 15: 8-10), to one in one (luke 15: 11-32), demonstrating god’s love for each individual and his personal attentiveness towards all humanity. we see in this story the graciousness of the father overshadowing the sinfulness of the son, as it is the memory of the father’s goodness that brings the prodigal son to repentance (romans 2: 4).

no it who u choose to be. let no one tel u what or who to be;