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In his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King Jr. refers to Jesus, Paul the Apostle, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln as _____.

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In his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King Jr. refers to Jesus, Paul the Apostle, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln as extremists.

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The correct answer is: extremists.

In "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King Jr. call all of these men extremists:

He calls Jesus an extremist for love, since he order us to even love our enemies. Paul is referred as an extremist for the Christian Gospel. And finally, Jefferson and Lincoln are called extremists for freedom an equality.

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