Good Writing

I am a very emotional person, but it's very hard to make me cry with the printed word. But I hadn't really read much that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had to say before. I'd read about him, but (I admit it) very few if any direct quotes. Something he wrote from the jail in Birmingham made me cry. Literally. I had tears rolling down my cheeks. That's something for you. I was crying because of the concept, but also the words themselves. They just penetrated, deeper and better than most of anything I read. Why did whoever-it-was have to shoot him?!?!