One day the South will know that when these disinherited childrenof God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the Americandream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nationback to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in theirformulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence

It is true that the police have exercised a degree of discipline in handing the demonstrators. In thissense they have conducted themselves rather “nonviolently” in pubic. But for what purpose? Topreserve the evil system of segregation

Where were their voices when the lips of Governor Barnett drippedwith words of interposition and nullification? Where were they when Governor Walleye gave ac la rio n call for defiance and hatred? Where were their voices of support when bruised and wearyNegro men and women decided to rise from the dark dungeons of complacency to the bright hills ofcreative protest

Yes, I love the church. How could I do otherwise? l am in the ratherunique position of being the son, the grandson and the great-grandson of preachers.

. compelled to carry the gospel of freedombeyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by inAtlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat tojustice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment ofdestiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with thenarrow, provincial “outside agitator” idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never beconsidered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.You deplore the demonstrations taking place In Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say,fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am surethat none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that dealsmerely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. It is unfortunate thatdemonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city’s whitepower structure left the Negro community with no alternative.

If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little timefor anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time forconstructive work.

Whereas I could hardly squeeze three words into the margins of the in-expensive paperbacks I used to annotate for my high school English class-es, the digital margins give you room to write much more. Tye, one of mystudents, appreciates this affordance, explaining, “I feel like it makes youdo a deeper read because I can just highlight and do an analysis of a lineinstead of trying to squeeze [in] little words.”

Community is an important aspect of social annotation.

Learning is a social act; we learn from others and from helping otherslearn.

Perhaps your teachersasked you to add notes to printed documents or in the margins of paper-back books. You may have used digital annotation tools.

Students are often encouraged to annotate while reading.