Give an example of a compound and complex sentence in "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter From a Birmingham Jail"
was written after King had been arrested in April of
1963.

Dr. King was an extraordinary orator; his writing is
moving, and sophisticated in its structure and organization. Finding a simple sentence
in this letter was not the easiest thing to do, though—ironically—it is the simplest
kind of a sentence.

The simple sentence
is:

...a
single independent clause with no dependent
clauses.

At one point Dr.
King writes the following sentence referring to "nonviolent direct
action"—

It
seeks to so dramatize the issue that it can no longer be
ignored.

This is an
independent clause (a complete thought—a sentence that can stand alone and make sense)
with no dependent clause (and incomplete thought) included. Another
form of of sentence is the compound sentence. A compound sentence is like the simple
sentence in that it uses the independent clause, but this time is has multiple
independent clauses (exactly two, in this case)—and still no
dependent clauses are used.

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These clauses are joined together using
conjunctions, punctuation or
both.

Dr. King, in the
introduction to his thoughts from the Birmingham jail, makes the following note. This is
a compound sentence: two independent clauses joined by a
conjunction.

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We have some eighty-five affiliated organizations
across the South, and one of them is the Alabama Christian Movement for Human
Rights.

A complex sentence is
a sentence with one independent clause and one dependent clause. The dependent
clause cannot stand alone, therefore, it "depends" on the independent clause
(that can stand alone) to make sense. The following is a complex
statement. The portion of the sentence that begins with "We" and continues on to the
comma after "mutuality" is the independent clause. It is a complete thought—it can stand
alone and make sense. The remainder of the sentence following the comma is the dependent
clause that makes no sense alone, and so depends on the independent
clause.

We are
caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of
destiny.