King’s strategy to negotiate difference and break down the legal and cultural borders of segregation in the south was placing the white racist community of the south into the emotional position that blacks deal with everyday. In the passage, “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr., he writes, “But more basically, I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eight century b.c. Left their villages and carried their ‘thus saith the lord’ far beyond the boundaries of their homes, and just as the apostle Paul left his village of tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world.