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Although the time periods and goals may be different the method for bringing about change is usually the same, this method is protest. This method is supported by two different people, in two different time periods, with two different goals; these two people are Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King Junior. Martin Luther King Junior's letter from Birmingham Jail was an expression of his encouragement for protest against tradition and established laws and a justification …

…action that would occur to achieve it. Martin Luther King Jr. and Thomas Jefferson were both leaders of revolutions, and though each revolution was vastly different, they believed in the idea that change would not occur unless it was forced along. They believed that change among established laws and traditions could only occur through protest. Two different men, nearly two hundred years apart, with two different goals, and nearly identical methods of achieving their goals