Martin Luther King Jr wrote a powerful letter from Birmingham regarding the great injustices present in society, which the black community faced every day. Although present in other communities it was worse for those who resided in Birmingham (King, 1963). Mr. King was asked to Birmingham in case there was a need to engage in a nonviolent direct action due to the injustices in Birmingham. These injustices included racism, inequality with blacks as they were unable to vote making it not really a democracy, the outrageous brutality taking place in Birmingham like the bombings and the burning of black homes and churches. King used his religious beliefs to support his actions in helping his black brother and sisters trying to right the injustices. He quoted St. Thomas Aquinas saying “an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law”, he states that by helping out he is doing the right and just thing by his religion and the moral thing unlike what was happening in Birmingham. He goes on to say that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere because whatever affects one directly effects all indirectly which is how Birmingham was tied to all of the other communities in the south (King, 1963). King uses the four steps to nonviolent campaigns which were thee collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist, negotiation, self-purification, and direct action. King uses these steps in regards to his Christian ethics by stressing that through self-purification they do not have to go to blows with the police, that there can be peace. He believes that using these four steps that there could be peace and no violence. King reconciled the “eye for an eye” Jewish ethical principle with the Christian “love one another” ethical principle of nonviolence by blending both concepts together he took a direct stand against the