Dr. King's Point

In the letter, Letter From Birmingham Jail, Dr. King addresses the complaints made by the eight clergymen from Alabama who were pressing King to end public demonstrations in Birmingham. I believe his point in writing this letter is to address the acts of the civil rights movement as not being defiant of just laws, but rather the unjust laws -the laws that, as King put it, "...degrade human personality." It is in this way that King was attempting to persuade the clergymen that the actions made by the movement were justified, through their non-violent endeavors.