"Birmingham is probably one of the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. It's ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negros have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation."
Ethos
"Now is the time to make real promises of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Noe is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity."
Pathos
"...came the opportunity to talk with some of the leaders of Birmingham's economic community. In the course of negotiations, certain promises were made by the merchants, for example to remove the humiliating racial signs. On the basis of these promises, Reverend Shuttlesworth and the leaders of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights agreed to a moratorium on all demonstration. As the weeks and months went by, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.