Dr. King’s rhetorical methods in paragraphs 11 and 12 of “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” appeal to logic and are organized very linear. He mixes pathos with logos, for a convincing combination of emotionally appealing logic. Dr. King states a part of his linear argument and then backs it up, exemplified in this excerpt, “We have not made a single gain in Civil Rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure… Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.” Dr. Kings first point is that a civil rights gain will not be achieved unless it is demanded, then he backs his claims up with data. His next point is a counterargument to a claim his audience made, that the civil movement is not at the right time. Dr. King then proceeds to write that the oppressor will never feel it is the right time to give up it’s power, that African-Americans have waited for this movement for 340 years and it will never be the, “right,” time. Next, Martin Luther King, Jr. introduces a high dose of pathos into his next point, emotionally connecting his author through imagery description of racial injustices African-Americans endure in a segregated society, using, “when’” clauses to further pull in the audience. He closes out his appeal to one's emotion with the statement that the civil rights movement will not wait any longer, even if it means breaking the law. His final argument, is yet again and logical counter argument to the claim that breaking the law is wrong. Dr. King argues that yes, breaking the law is wrong, but it is not wrong if the law is unjust. In the following paragraphs, he then explains how to determine if a law is just or unjust. Through pathos and logos, as well as a logically laid out, linear argument, Dr. King explains why the civil rights movement will no longer wait to pursue justice.